I believe this is what the medieval Noh playwright and theorist Zeami meant by ‘watching with a detached gaze.’
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.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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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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What nurtures this root and makes it grow into a tree is the script. What makes the tree bear flowers and fruit is the directing.
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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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In a mad world only the mad are sane.
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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 share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
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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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When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
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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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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.
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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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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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I’ve been able to work for so long because I think next time, I’ll make something good.
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A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.
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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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