While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.
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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The role of the artist is to not look away.
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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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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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The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.
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I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
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A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
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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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In a mad world only the mad are sane.
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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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I believe you must live honestly and develop your abilities to the full. People who do this are the real heroes.
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I like silent pictures and I always have … I wanted to restore some of this beauty. I thought of it, I remember in this way.
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The great appeal of film is its relatability.
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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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