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.
AKIRA KUROSAWAI can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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I’ve been able to work for so long because I think next time, I’ll make something good.
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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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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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The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.
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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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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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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
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It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
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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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I end up writing not from my own will, but from theirs-they come alive as I write and make me do things that I couldn’t have planned.
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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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One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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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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