While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.
AKIRA KUROSAWAThere is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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The great appeal of film is its relatability.
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It is to make it nurture and grow that I write my script- it is directing it that makes my tree blossom and bear fruit.
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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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To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means never to look away.
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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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It’s easy to explain the psychological state of a character at a particular moment, but it’s very difficult to describe it through the delicate nuances of action and dialogue. Yet it is not impossible.
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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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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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To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means to never look away.
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The characters in my films try to live honestly and make the most of the lives they’ve been given.
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I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.
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In order to find reality, each must search for his own universe, look for the details that contribute to this reality7 that one feels under the surface of things.
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During the shooting of a scene the director’s eye has to catch even the minutest detail. But this does not mean glaring concentratedly at the set.
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A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
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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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