To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
AKIRA KUROSAWATo be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means to never look away.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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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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I have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do.
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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.
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It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
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A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
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There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
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If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
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Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people.
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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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but ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. People who delight in torturing defenseless children or tiny creatures are in reality insane.
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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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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.
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While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.
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The truth is in the mystery.
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