While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.
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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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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The terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public.
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I had wanted to make The Idiot long before Rashomon. Since I was little I’ve liked Russian literature, but I find that I like Dostoevsky the best and had long thought that this book would make a wonderful film.
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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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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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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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I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.
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There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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It’s easy to explain the psychological state of a character at a particular moment, but it’s very difficult to describe it through the delicate nuances of action and dialogue. Yet it is not impossible.
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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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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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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.
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Movie directors, or should I say people who create things, are very greedy and they can never be satisfied… That’s why they can keep on working.
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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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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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