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A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.

Akira Kurosawa

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?
AKIRA KUROSAWA

Common Film People Suppose Theme Think Together
That is what makes a real movie. The script must be something that has the power to do this.
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Make Movie Power Real Script Something
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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Come Dream Genius Harder Man True
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.
AKIRA KUROSAWA

Certain Creator Itself Nothing Often Reveal Straightforward Themselves World
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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Anything Movie Nothing Result Talk Turn Writing Zero
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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Art Beauty Like Always Picture Remember Restore Silent Technique Way
In a mad world only the mad are sane.
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Crazy Depression Insane Mad World
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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Achieve Alive Best Come Done Pleasure Strength Unless Work
The characters in my films try to live honestly and make the most of the lives they’ve been given.
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Been Believe Character Film Great Hero Honesty Live Real
The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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Alive Audience Done Film Heart Idea Number Project
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

Beginning Come Film Need Particular Something Thing Time
With a good script a good director can produce a masterpiece; with the same script a mediocre director can make a passable film. But with a bad script even a good director can’t possibly make a good film.
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Bad Director Expression Film Fire Good Masterpiece Mediocre Passable Producer Real Same Script
To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means never to look away.
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Artist Away Find Look Mean never Reality Search
I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.
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Character Matter May Myself Old Still Unformed
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.
AKIRA KUROSAWA

Cinema Combine Everything Filmmaking Life Made Reason Theatre Together Work
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 KUROSAWA

Clean Going Human Important Lose Most Nature Parish Water

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