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.
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 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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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.
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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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He is still my favourite author, and he is the one – I still think – who writes most honestly about human existence.
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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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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 Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.
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A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
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I believe this is what the medieval Noh playwright and theorist Zeami meant by ‘watching with a detached gaze.’
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By doing this I sense instantly when something isn’t right. Watching something does not mean fixing your gaze on it, but being aware of it in a natural way.
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When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
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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 great appeal of film is its relatability.
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With a good script a good director can produce a masterpiece; with the same script a mediocre director can make a passable film. But with a bad script even a good director can’t possibly make a good film.
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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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