Adding explanation to the descriptive passages of a screenplay is the most dangerous trap you can fall into.
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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I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.
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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 truth is in the mystery.
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With a good script a good director can produce a masterpiece; with the same script a mediocre director can make a passable film. But with a bad script even a good director can’t possibly make a good 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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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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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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If I were to write anything at all, it would turn out to be nothing but talk about movies. In other words, take ‘myself,’ subtract ‘movies,’ and the result is ‘zero.’
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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.
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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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While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.
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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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A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
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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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