There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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 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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I like silent pictures and I always have … I wanted to restore some of this beauty. I thought of it, I remember in this way.
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To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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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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They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.
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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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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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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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What nurtures this root and makes it grow into a tree is the script. What makes the tree bear flowers and fruit is the directing.
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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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One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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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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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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