Adding explanation to the descriptive passages of a screenplay is the most dangerous trap you can fall into.
AKIRA KUROSAWAA truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
-
-
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.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
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.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
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.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
The terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
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.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
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.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
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.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
The great appeal of film is its relatability.
AKIRA KUROSAWA