A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
AKIRA KUROSAWAThey often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
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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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If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.
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There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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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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I end up writing not from my own will, but from theirs-they come alive as I write and make me do things that I couldn’t have planned.
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People today have forgotten they’re really just a part of nature. Yet, they destroy the nature on which our lives depend. They always think they can make something better…
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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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Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages.
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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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In a mad world only the mad are sane.
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The great appeal of film is its relatability.
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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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When I start on a film I always have a number of ideas about my project. Then one of them begins to germinate, to sprout, and it is this, which I take and work with.
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