I have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do.
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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I had wanted to make The Idiot long before Rashomon. Since I was little I’ve liked Russian literature, but I find that I like Dostoevsky the best and had long thought that this book would make a wonderful film.
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In a mad world only the mad are sane.
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A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.
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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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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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I’ve been able to work for so long because I think next time, I’ll make something good.
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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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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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People today have forgotten they’re really just a part of nature. Yet, they destroy the nature on which our lives depend. They always think they can make something better…
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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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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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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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The role of the artist is to not look away.
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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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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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