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.
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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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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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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To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
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A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
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People today have forgotten they’re really just a part of nature. Yet, they destroy the nature on which our lives depend. They always think they can make something better…
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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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The role of the artist is to not look away.
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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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If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.
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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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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 to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means never to look away.
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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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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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One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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