Movie directors, or should I say people who create things, are very greedy and they can never be satisfied… That’s why they can keep on working.
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.
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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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That is what makes a real movie. The script must be something that has the power to do this.
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The role of the artist is to not look away.
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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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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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The great appeal of film is its relatability.
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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that 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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To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means never to look away.
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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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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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The characters in my films try to live honestly and make the most of the lives they’ve been given.
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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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