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.
AKIRA KUROSAWAThere is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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I don’t feel out of place. I think of earth as my home. If everyone thought this way, people might notice just how foolish international friction is and the would be put an end to it.
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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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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 terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public.
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One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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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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It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
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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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When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
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The role of the artist is to not look away.
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Movie directors, or should I say people who create things, are very greedy and they can never be satisfied… That’s why they can keep on working.
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They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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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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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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