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When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.

Akira Kurosawa

Man is a genius when he dreams. Dream what you are capable of. The harder you dream it, the sooner it will come true.
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Come Dream Genius Harder Man True
Yet pleasure in the work can’t be achieved unless you know you have put all of your strength into it and have done your best to make it come alive.
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Achieve Alive Best Come Done Pleasure Strength Unless Work
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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Alive Come End Make Own Plan Thing Will Writing
By doing this I sense instantly when something isn’t right. Watching something does not mean fixing your gaze on it, but being aware of it in a natural way.
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Aware Being Fix Instantly Nature Right Sense Something Watch Way
Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people.
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Although Being Honesty Incapable People Pretend Talking Themselves Total Truth
That is what makes a real movie. The script must be something that has the power to do this.
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Make Movie Power Real Script Something
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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Anything Movie Nothing Result Talk Turn Writing Zero
There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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Creator Itself More Nothing Work
I had wanted to make The Idiot long before Rashomon. Since I was little I’ve liked Russian literature, but I find that I like Dostoevsky the best and had long thought that this book would make a wonderful film.
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Book Country Film Idiot Like Literature Long Make Want Wonderful
The great appeal of film is its relatability.
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Appeal Film Great Relatability
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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Animal Children Creature Defence Delight Human Ignorance Instant People Torturing
It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
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Give Imagination Memory Power Rise
For truly cinematic expression, the camera and the microphone must be able to cross both fire and water.
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Able Camera Cinematic Cross Expression Fire Microphone Truly Water
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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Common Film People Suppose Theme Think Together
My 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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Beginning Come Film Need Particular Something Thing Time
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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Attain Believe Filmmaker First Hope Inspire Make People Place Quality Quantity

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