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.
AKIRA KUROSAWAThat is what makes a real movie. The script must be something that has the power to do this.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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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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The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
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The truth is in the mystery.
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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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I have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do.
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It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
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I believe this is what the medieval Noh playwright and theorist Zeami meant by ‘watching with a detached gaze.’
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I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.
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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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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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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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To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means to never look away.
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A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.
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One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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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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