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.
AKIRA KUROSAWATo be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means never to look away.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
-
-
I have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
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 KUROSAWA -
Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
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.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
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.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
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.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
The terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
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 KUROSAWA -
Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
The role of the artist is to not look away.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
I’ve been able to work for so long because I think next time, I’ll make something good.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
Page 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can’t speak any foreign language.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
I end up writing not from my own will, but from theirs-they come alive as I write and make me do things that I couldn’t have planned.
AKIRA KUROSAWA