I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.
AKIRA KUROSAWATo 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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There is something that might be called cinematic beauty. It can only be expressed in a film, and it must be present for that film to be a moving work.
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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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Page 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can’t speak any foreign language.
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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
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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 like silent pictures and I always have … I wanted to restore some of this beauty. I thought of it, I remember in this way.
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Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
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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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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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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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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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Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people.
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but ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. People who delight in torturing defenseless children or tiny creatures are in reality insane.
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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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