A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
AKIRA KUROSAWADuring the shooting of a scene the director’s eye has to catch even the minutest detail. But this does not mean glaring concentratedly at the set.
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Adding explanation to the descriptive passages of a screenplay is the most dangerous trap you can fall into.
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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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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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That is what makes a real movie. The script must be something that has the power to do this.
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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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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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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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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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Page 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can’t speak any foreign language.
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One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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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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During the shooting of a scene the director’s eye has to catch even the minutest detail. But this does not mean glaring concentratedly at the set.
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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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