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.
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
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A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.
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Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages.
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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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The great appeal of film is its relatability.
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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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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.’
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To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
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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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I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.
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When I start on a film I always have a number of ideas about my project. Then one of them begins to germinate, to sprout, and it is this, which I take and work with.
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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.
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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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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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