Adding explanation to the descriptive passages of a screenplay is the most dangerous trap you can fall into.
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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The great appeal of film is its relatability.
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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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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 truth is in the mystery.
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If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
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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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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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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.
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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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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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The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
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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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There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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With a good script a good director can produce a masterpiece; with the same script a mediocre director can make a passable film. But with a bad script even a good director can’t possibly make a good film.
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The terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public.
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