A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.
AKIRA KUROSAWAWhen it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
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When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
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I simply do not like to show my weakness, and I hate to lose, so I am a person who tries hard. That’s all there is to me.
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The role of the artist is to not look away.
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Take me, subtract movies, and you get 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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but ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. People who delight in torturing defenseless children or tiny creatures are in reality insane.
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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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The terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public.
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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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To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
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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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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 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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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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The truth is in the mystery.
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