The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
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.
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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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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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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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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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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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When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
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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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To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
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I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.
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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?
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I have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do.
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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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I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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