If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.
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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When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
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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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The role of the artist is to not look away.
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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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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
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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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It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
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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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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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One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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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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I don’t feel out of place. I think of earth as my home. If everyone thought this way, people might notice just how foolish international friction is and the would be put an end to it.
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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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