A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
AKIRA KUROSAWAA truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
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Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages.
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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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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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By doing this I sense instantly when something isn’t right. Watching something does not mean fixing your gaze on it, but being aware of it in a natural way.
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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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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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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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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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I’ve been able to work for so long because I think next time, I’ll make something good.
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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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The truth is in the mystery.
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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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There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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The role of the artist is to not look away.
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I end up writing not from my own will, but from theirs-they come alive as I write and make me do things that I couldn’t have planned.
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