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?
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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While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.
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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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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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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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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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Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages.
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I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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The great appeal of film is its relatability.
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To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
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The truth is in the mystery.
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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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The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
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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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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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If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
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