The characters in my films try to live honestly and make the most of the lives they’ve been given.
AKIRA KUROSAWAI can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.
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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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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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 believe this is what the medieval Noh playwright and theorist Zeami meant by ‘watching with a detached gaze.’
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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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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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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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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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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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While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.
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During the shooting of a scene the director’s eye has to catch even the minutest detail. But this does not mean glaring concentratedly at the set.
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One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this 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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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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