The role of the artist is to not look away.
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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That is what makes a real movie. The script must be something that has the power to do this.
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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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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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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 great appeal of film is its relatability.
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If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.
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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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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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Adding explanation to the descriptive passages of a screenplay is the most dangerous trap you can fall into.
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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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I simply do not like to show my weakness, and I hate to lose, so I am a person who tries hard. That’s all there is to me.
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In a mad world only the mad are sane.
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To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
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I believe that it is this quality that draws people to come and see a film, and that it is the hope of attaining this quality that inspires the filmmaker to make his film in the first place.
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