The role of the artist is to not look away.
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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In a mad world only the mad are sane.
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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 believe that it is this quality that draws people to come and see a film, and that it is the hope of attaining this quality that inspires the filmmaker to make his film in the first place.
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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 like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.
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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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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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A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
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To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
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A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.
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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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That is what makes a real movie. The script must be something that has the power to do this.
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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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I believe this is what the medieval Noh playwright and theorist Zeami meant by ‘watching with a detached gaze.’
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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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