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.
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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Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages.
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For truly cinematic expression, the camera and the microphone must be able to cross both fire and water.
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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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By doing this I sense instantly when something isn’t right. Watching something does not mean fixing your gaze on it, but being aware of it in a natural way.
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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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When I start on a film I always have a number of ideas about my project. Then one of them begins to germinate, to sprout, and it is this, which I take and work with.
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What nurtures this root and makes it grow into a tree is the script. What makes the tree bear flowers and fruit is the directing.
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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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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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One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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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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While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.
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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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The great appeal of film is its relatability.
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