I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.
AKIRA KUROSAWAI have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means never to look away.
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The role of the artist is to not look away.
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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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I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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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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One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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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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To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
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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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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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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 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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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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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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