but ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. People who delight in torturing defenseless children or tiny creatures are in reality insane.
AKIRA KUROSAWAThe truth is in the mystery.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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They don’t know it, but they’re losing nature. They don’t see that they’re going to perish. The most important things for human beings are clean air and clean water.
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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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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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Yet pleasure in the work can’t be achieved unless you know you have put all of your strength into it and have done your best to make it come alive.
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Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
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I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.
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The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
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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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For me, filmmaking combines everything. That’s the reason I’ve made cinema my life’s work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music come together. But a film is still a film.
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Adding explanation to the descriptive passages of a screenplay is the most dangerous trap you can fall into.
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I have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do.
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I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.
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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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I suppose all of my films have a common theme. If I think about it, though, the only theme I can think of is really a question: Why can’t people be happier together?
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