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.
AKIRA KUROSAWATo be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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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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Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people.
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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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I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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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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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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I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.
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Man is a genius when he dreams. Dream what you are capable of. The harder you dream it, the sooner it will come true.
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He is still my favourite author, and he is the one – I still think – who writes most honestly about human existence.
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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 terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public.
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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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For truly cinematic expression, the camera and the microphone must be able to cross both fire and water.
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The characters in my films try to live honestly and make the most of the lives they’ve been given.
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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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