A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.
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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Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
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In a mad world only the mad are sane.
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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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When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
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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 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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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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Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.
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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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I’ve been able to work for so long because I think next time, I’ll make something good.
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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.
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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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The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.
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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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Adding explanation to the descriptive passages of a screenplay is the most dangerous trap you can fall into.
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