They don’t know it, but they’re losing nature. They don’t see that they’re going to perish. The most important things for human beings are clean air and clean water.
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’ve been able to work for so long because I think next time, I’ll make something good.
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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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The role of the artist is to not look away.
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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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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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One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
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Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages.
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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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In a mad world only the mad are sane.
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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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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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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 believe this is what the medieval Noh playwright and theorist Zeami meant by ‘watching with a detached gaze.’
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A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
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