I have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do.
AKIRA KUROSAWAA truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
-
-
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.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
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.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
That is what makes a real movie. The script must be something that has the power to do this.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
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 -
The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
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 -
He is still my favourite author, and he is the one – I still think – who writes most honestly about human existence.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
I believe this is what the medieval Noh playwright and theorist Zeami meant by ‘watching with a detached gaze.’
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
Man is a genius when he dreams. Dream what you are capable of. The harder you dream it, the sooner it will come true.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
Adding explanation to the descriptive passages of a screenplay is the most dangerous trap you can fall into.
AKIRA KUROSAWA