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.
AKIRA KUROSAWAI can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
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Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages.
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For truly cinematic expression, the camera and the microphone must be able to cross both fire and water.
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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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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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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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It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
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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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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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While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.
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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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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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One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.
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