The characters in my films try to live honestly and make the most of the lives they’ve been given.
AKIRA KUROSAWAWhile the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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In a mad world only the mad are sane.
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If I were to write anything at all, it would turn out to be nothing but talk about movies. In other words, take ‘myself,’ subtract ‘movies,’ and the result is ‘zero.’
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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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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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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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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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A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.
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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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Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
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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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The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.
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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 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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Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
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