I suppose all of my films have a common theme. If I think about it, though, the only theme I can think of is really a question: Why can’t people be happier together?
AKIRA KUROSAWAMy 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.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
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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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If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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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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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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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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That is what makes a real movie. The script must be something that has the power to do this.
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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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I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.
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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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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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In a mad world only the mad are sane.
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I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.
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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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