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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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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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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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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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In order to find reality, each must search for his own universe, look for the details that contribute to this reality7 that one feels under the surface of things.
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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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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?
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The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
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I believe you must live honestly and develop your abilities to the full. People who do this are the real heroes.
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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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Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
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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.
AKIRA KUROSAWA

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One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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I had wanted to make The Idiot long before Rashomon. Since I was little I’ve liked Russian literature, but I find that I like Dostoevsky the best and had long thought that this book would make a wonderful film.
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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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While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.
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My films come from my need to say a particular thing at a particular time. The beginning of any film for me is this need to express something.
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