Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
AKIRA KUROSAWATo be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means to never look away.
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Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
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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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I don’t feel out of place. I think of earth as my home. If everyone thought this way, people might notice just how foolish international friction is and the would be put an end to it.
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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.
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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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A 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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I believe you must live honestly and develop your abilities to the full. People who do this are the real heroes.
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That is what makes a real movie. The script must be something that has the power to do this.
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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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It is to make it nurture and grow that I write my script- it is directing it that makes my tree blossom and bear fruit.
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It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
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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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Page 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can’t speak any foreign language.
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The truth is in the mystery.
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