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.
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 am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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I simply do not like to show my weakness, and I hate to lose, so I am a person who tries hard. That’s all there is to me.
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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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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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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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Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages.
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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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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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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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When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
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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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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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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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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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I don’t feel out of place. I think of earth as my home. If everyone thought this way, people might notice just how foolish international friction is and the would be put an end to it.
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