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.
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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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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If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
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Yet pleasure in the work can’t be achieved unless you know you have put all of your strength into it and have done your best to make it come alive.
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The great appeal of film is its relatability.
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Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
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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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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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With a good script a good director can produce a masterpiece; with the same script a mediocre director can make a passable film. But with a bad script even a good director can’t possibly make a good film.
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Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages.
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When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
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It’s easy to explain the psychological state of a character at a particular moment, but it’s very difficult to describe it through the delicate nuances of action and dialogue. Yet it is not impossible.
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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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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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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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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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