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 KUROSAWATo be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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The truth is in the mystery.
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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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I simply do not like to show my weakness, and I hate to lose, so I am a person who tries hard. That’s all there is to me.
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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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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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I have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do.
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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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Adding explanation to the descriptive passages of a screenplay is the most dangerous trap you can fall into.
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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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It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
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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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There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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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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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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Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.
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