While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.
AKIRA KUROSAWAA truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
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The role of the artist is to not look away.
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The truth is in the mystery.
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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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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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I believe this is what the medieval Noh playwright and theorist Zeami meant by ‘watching with a detached gaze.’
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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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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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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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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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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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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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That is what makes a real movie. The script must be something that has the power to do this.
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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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Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.
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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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