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That is what makes a real movie. The script must be something that has the power to do this.

Akira Kurosawa

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.
AKIRA KUROSAWA

Alive Come End Make Own Plan Thing Will Writing
For me, filmmaking combines everything. That’s the reason I’ve made cinema my life’s work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music come together. But a film is still a film.
AKIRA KUROSAWA

Cinema Combine Everything Filmmaking Life Made Reason Theatre Together Work
To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means to never look away.
AKIRA KUROSAWA

Artist Away Look Mean never Reality Search
There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
AKIRA KUROSAWA

Creator Itself More Nothing Work
The role of the artist is to not look away.
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Artist Away Look Role
Man is a genius when he dreams. Dream what you are capable of. The harder you dream it, the sooner it will come true.
AKIRA KUROSAWA

Come Dream Genius Harder Man True
I have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do.
AKIRA KUROSAWA

Anything Character Go Idea might Over Personality Want Writing
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.
AKIRA KUROSAWA

Beginning Come Film Need Particular Something Thing Time
Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.
AKIRA KUROSAWA

Being Honest Human Themselves Unable
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.
AKIRA KUROSAWA

Beauty Believe Call Cinematic Express Film might Moving People Something
I had wanted to make The Idiot long before Rashomon. Since I was little I’ve liked Russian literature, but I find that I like Dostoevsky the best and had long thought that this book would make a wonderful film.
AKIRA KUROSAWA

Book Country Film Idiot Like Literature Long Make Want Wonderful
If I were to write anything at all, it would turn out to be nothing but talk about movies. In other words, take ‘myself,’ subtract ‘movies,’ and the result is ‘zero.’
AKIRA KUROSAWA

Anything Movie Nothing Result Talk Turn Writing Zero
People today have forgotten they’re really just a part of nature. Yet, they destroy the nature on which our lives depend. They always think they can make something better…
AKIRA KUROSAWA

Air Better Depend Destroy Forgotten Nature Part People Something Thinking
Page 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can’t speak any foreign language.
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Although Foreign Home Language Matter People Speak Thinking World
I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.
AKIRA KUROSAWA

Character Matter May Myself Old Still Unformed
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.
AKIRA KUROSAWA

Bear Blossom Direct Fruit Grow Make Nurture Script Tree Write

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