For truly cinematic expression, the camera and the microphone must be able to cross both fire and water.
AKIRA KUROSAWAFor truly cinematic expression, the camera and the microphone must be able to cross both fire and water.
AKIRA KUROSAWAI 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.
AKIRA KUROSAWATake me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
AKIRA KUROSAWAWhen 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.
AKIRA KUROSAWAA film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.
AKIRA KUROSAWAOf all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
AKIRA KUROSAWAWhile the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.
AKIRA KUROSAWAIn a mad world only the mad are sane.
AKIRA KUROSAWAHe is still my favourite author, and he is the one – I still think – who writes most honestly about human existence.
AKIRA KUROSAWAI suppose all of my films have a common theme. If I think about it, though, the only theme I can think of is really a question: Why can’t people be happier together?
AKIRA KUROSAWAThe root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
AKIRA KUROSAWAI like silent pictures and I always have … I wanted to restore some of this beauty. I thought of it, I remember in this way.
AKIRA KUROSAWAThe role of the artist is to not look away.
AKIRA KUROSAWAbut ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. People who delight in torturing defenseless children or tiny creatures are in reality insane.
AKIRA KUROSAWAMan is a genius when he is dreaming.
AKIRA KUROSAWAThe terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public.
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