I’ve been able to work for so long because I think next time, I’ll make something good.
AKIRA KUROSAWAWhen 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.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
-
-
I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
That is what makes a real movie. The script must be something that has the power to do this.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
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.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
I have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means never to look away.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
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.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means to never look away.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
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.’
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
Adding explanation to the descriptive passages of a screenplay is the most dangerous trap you can fall into.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
I believe this is what the medieval Noh playwright and theorist Zeami meant by ‘watching with a detached gaze.’
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
The role of the artist is to not look away.
AKIRA KUROSAWA