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.
AKIRA KUROSAWAFor 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 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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It is to make it nurture and grow that I write my script- it is directing it that makes my tree blossom and bear fruit.
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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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I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.
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There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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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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The great appeal of film is its relatability.
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What nurtures this root and makes it grow into a tree is the script. What makes the tree bear flowers and fruit is the directing.
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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 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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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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I simply do not like to show my weakness, and I hate to lose, so I am a person who tries hard. That’s all there is to me.
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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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If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.
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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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