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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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That is what makes a real movie. The script must be something that has the power to do this.
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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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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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If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.
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During the shooting of a scene the director’s eye has to catch even the minutest detail. But this does not mean glaring concentratedly at the set.
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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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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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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.
AKIRA KUROSAWA

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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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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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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means to never look away.
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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 characters in my films try to live honestly and make the most of the lives they’ve been given.
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The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.
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I have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do.
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