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.
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?
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
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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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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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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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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.
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There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.
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The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.
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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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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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I’ve been able to work for so long because I think next time, I’ll make something good.
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If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.
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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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Page 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can’t speak any foreign language.
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