I simply do not like to show my weakness, and I hate to lose, so I am a person who tries hard. That’s all there is to me.
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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If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.
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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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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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I don’t feel out of place. I think of earth as my home. If everyone thought this way, people might notice just how foolish international friction is and the would be put an end to it.
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There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.
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One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
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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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By doing this I sense instantly when something isn’t right. Watching something does not mean fixing your gaze on it, but being aware of it in a natural way.
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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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The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
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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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Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people.
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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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