To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means never to look away.
AKIRA KUROSAWAIt is to make it nurture and grow that I write my script- it is directing it that makes my tree blossom and bear fruit.
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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Adding explanation to the descriptive passages of a screenplay is the most dangerous trap you can fall into.
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In a mad world only the mad are sane.
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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 have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do.
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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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The truth is in the mystery.
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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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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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The role of the artist is to not look away.
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A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
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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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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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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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