If I were to write anything at all, it would turn out to be nothing but talk about movies. In other words, take ‘myself,’ subtract ‘movies,’ and the result is ‘zero.’
AKIRA KUROSAWAWhat nurtures this root and makes it grow into a tree is the script. What makes the tree bear flowers and fruit is the directing.
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If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.
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What nurtures this root and makes it grow into a tree is the script. What makes the tree bear flowers and fruit is the directing.
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The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.
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He is still my favourite author, and he is the one – I still think – who writes most honestly about human existence.
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Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people.
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I simply do not like to show my weakness, and I hate to lose, so I am a person who tries hard. That’s all there is to me.
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With a good script a good director can produce a masterpiece; with the same script a mediocre director can make a passable film. But with a bad script even a good director can’t possibly make a good film.
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I like silent pictures and I always have … I wanted to restore some of this beauty. I thought of it, I remember in this way.
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The great appeal of film is its relatability.
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Page 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can’t speak any foreign language.
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Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
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When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
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I believe that it is this quality that draws people to come and see a film, and that it is the hope of attaining this quality that inspires the filmmaker to make his film in the first place.
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My films come from my need to say a particular thing at a particular time. The beginning of any film for me is this need to express something.
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Man is a genius when he dreams. Dream what you are capable of. The harder you dream it, the sooner it will come true.
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