I’ve been able to work for so long because I think next time, I’ll make something good.
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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Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages.
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When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
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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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Adding explanation to the descriptive passages of a screenplay is the most dangerous trap you can fall into.
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The great appeal of film is its relatability.
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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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While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.
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Yet pleasure in the work can’t be achieved unless you know you have put all of your strength into it and have done your best to make it come alive.
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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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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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A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
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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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There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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The terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public.
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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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In order to find reality, each must search for his own universe, look for the details that contribute to this reality7 that one feels under the surface of things.
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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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For me, filmmaking combines everything. That’s the reason I’ve made cinema my life’s work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music come together. But a film is still a film.
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The truth is in the mystery.
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I had wanted to make The Idiot long before Rashomon. Since I was little I’ve liked Russian literature, but I find that I like Dostoevsky the best and had long thought that this book would make a wonderful film.
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I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.
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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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By doing this I sense instantly when something isn’t right. Watching something does not mean fixing your gaze on it, but being aware of it in a natural way.
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Page 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can’t speak any foreign language.
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