If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.
AKIRA KUROSAWAWhen it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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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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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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I have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do.
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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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A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.
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In a mad world only the mad are sane.
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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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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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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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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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I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.
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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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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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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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Page 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can’t speak any foreign language.
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For me, filmmaking combines everything. That’s the reason I’ve made cinema my life’s work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music come together. But a film is still a film.
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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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Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
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I believe you must live honestly and develop your abilities to the full. People who do this are the real heroes.
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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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It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
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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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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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Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
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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 is to make it nurture and grow that I write my script- it is directing it that makes my tree blossom and bear fruit.
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