In a mad world only the mad are sane.
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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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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The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.
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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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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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The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
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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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Movie directors, or should I say people who create things, are very greedy and they can never be satisfied… That’s why they can keep on working.
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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 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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I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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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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I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.
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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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Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.
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