I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.
AKIRA KUROSAWAIf 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.’
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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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While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.
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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’ve been able to work for so long because I think next time, I’ll make something good.
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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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For truly cinematic expression, the camera and the microphone must be able to cross both fire and water.
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Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people.
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Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.
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When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
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The role of the artist is to not look away.
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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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The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
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One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.
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