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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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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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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It’s easy to explain the psychological state of a character at a particular moment, but it’s very difficult to describe it through the delicate nuances of action and dialogue. Yet it is not impossible.
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There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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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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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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A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.
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When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
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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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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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To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.
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