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.
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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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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He is still my favourite author, and he is the one – I still think – who writes most honestly about human existence.
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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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Yet pleasure in the work can’t be achieved unless you know you have put all of your strength into it and have done your best to make it come alive.
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A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
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To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
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I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.
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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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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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When I start on a film I always have a number of ideas about my project. Then one of them begins to germinate, to sprout, and it is this, which I take and work with.
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To 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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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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The role of the artist is to not look away.
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There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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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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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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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 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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What nurtures this root and makes it grow into a tree is the script. What makes the tree bear flowers and fruit is the directing.
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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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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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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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Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
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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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If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
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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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