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 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.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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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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People today have forgotten they’re really just a part of nature. Yet, they destroy the nature on which our lives depend. They always think they can make something better…
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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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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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Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
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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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I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.
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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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If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.
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It is to make it nurture and grow that I write my script- it is directing it that makes my tree blossom and bear fruit.
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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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Page 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can’t speak any foreign language.
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The role of the artist is to not look away.
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