but ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. People who delight in torturing defenseless children or tiny creatures are in reality insane.
AKIRA KUROSAWAWith 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.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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I like silent pictures and I always have … I wanted to restore some of this beauty. I thought of it, I remember in this way.
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If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.
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I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.
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The truth is in the mystery.
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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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I believe you must live honestly and develop your abilities to the full. People who do this are the real heroes.
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I suppose all of my films have a common theme. If I think about it, though, the only theme I can think of is really a question: Why can’t people be happier together?
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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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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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Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.
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That is what makes a real movie. The script must be something that has the power to do this.
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While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.
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The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
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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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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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