The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
AKIRA KUROSAWAI am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.
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The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
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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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The truth is in the mystery.
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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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While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.
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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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One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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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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For truly cinematic expression, the camera and the microphone must be able to cross both fire and water.
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There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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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 you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
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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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