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.
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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A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.
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The characters in my films try to live honestly and make the most of the lives they’ve been given.
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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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Man is a genius when he dreams. Dream what you are capable of. The harder you dream it, the sooner it will come true.
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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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By doing this I sense instantly when something isn’t right. Watching something does not mean fixing your gaze on it, but being aware of it in a natural way.
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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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They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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If 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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I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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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.
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The terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public.
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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 have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do.
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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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