To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means to never look away.
AKIRA KUROSAWAI am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people.
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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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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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A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.
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They don’t know it, but they’re losing nature. They don’t see that they’re going to perish. The most important things for human beings are clean air and clean water.
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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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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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Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.
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My films come from my need to say a particular thing at a particular time. The beginning of any film for me is this need to express something.
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The role of the artist is to not look away.
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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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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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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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When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
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I have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do.
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