I have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do.
AKIRA KUROSAWAHe is still my favourite author, and he is the one – I still think – who writes most honestly about human existence.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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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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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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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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Adding explanation to the descriptive passages of a screenplay is the most dangerous trap you can fall into.
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The truth is in the mystery.
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The characters in my films try to live honestly and make the most of the lives they’ve been given.
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Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
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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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I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.
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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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I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.
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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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