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.
AKIRA KUROSAWAThe role of the artist is to not look away.
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For truly cinematic expression, the camera and the microphone must be able to cross both fire and water.
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The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
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Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
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I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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Yet pleasure in the work can’t be achieved unless you know you have put all of your strength into it and have done your best to make it come alive.
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While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.
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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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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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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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I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.
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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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It’s easy to explain the psychological state of a character at a particular moment, but it’s very difficult to describe it through the delicate nuances of action and dialogue. Yet it is not impossible.
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If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
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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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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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