While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.
AKIRA KUROSAWAIf you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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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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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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Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages.
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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.
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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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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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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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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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They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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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.
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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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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 root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
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A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.
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