Man is a genius when he dreams. Dream what you are capable of. The harder you dream it, the sooner it will come true.
AKIRA KUROSAWAI 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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Page 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can’t speak any foreign language.
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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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It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
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They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages.
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Adding explanation to the descriptive passages of a screenplay is the most dangerous trap you can fall into.
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In a mad world only the mad are sane.
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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.
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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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For truly cinematic expression, the camera and the microphone must be able to cross both fire and water.
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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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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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Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
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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 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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