A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
AKIRA KUROSAWAFor truly cinematic expression, the camera and the microphone must be able to cross both fire and water.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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 never to avert one’s eyes.
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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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It is to make it nurture and grow that I write my script- it is directing it that makes my tree blossom and bear fruit.
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During the shooting of a scene the director’s eye has to catch even the minutest detail. But this does not mean glaring concentratedly at the set.
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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 film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.
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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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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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