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 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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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.
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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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If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
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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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When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
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Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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He is still my favourite author, and he is the one – I still think – who writes most honestly about human existence.
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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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I believe that it is this quality that draws people to come and see a film, and that it is the hope of attaining this quality that inspires the filmmaker to make his film in the first place.
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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.
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The characters in my films try to live honestly and make the most of the lives they’ve been given.
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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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One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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In a mad world only the mad are sane.
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