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.
AKIRA KUROSAWAIf you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
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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 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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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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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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A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
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The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
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I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.
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If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
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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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I had wanted to make The Idiot long before Rashomon. Since I was little I’ve liked Russian literature, but I find that I like Dostoevsky the best and had long thought that this book would make a wonderful film.
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The truth is in the mystery.
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The role of the artist is to not look away.
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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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I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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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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