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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.

Akira Kurosawa

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.
AKIRA KUROSAWA

Beauty Believe Call Cinematic Express Film might Moving People Something
I 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.
AKIRA KUROSAWA

Attain Believe Filmmaker First Hope Inspire Make People Place Quality Quantity
I end up writing not from my own will, but from theirs-they come alive as I write and make me do things that I couldn’t have planned.
AKIRA KUROSAWA

Alive Come End Make Own Plan Thing Will Writing
It’s easy to explain the psychological state of a character at a particular moment, but it’s very difficult to describe it through the delicate nuances of action and dialogue. Yet it is not impossible.
AKIRA KUROSAWA

Action Character Dialogue Difficult Explain Moment Particular Possible Psychological State
I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.
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Afford Anyone Hate Kind Time
The characters in my films try to live honestly and make the most of the lives they’ve been given.
AKIRA KUROSAWA

Been Believe Character Film Great Hero Honesty Live Real
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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Bear Blossom Direct Fruit Grow Make Nurture Script Tree Write
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.
AKIRA KUROSAWA

Hate Lose Person Show Simpy Try Weakness
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?
AKIRA KUROSAWA

Common Film People Suppose Theme Think Together
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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Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
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Being Common Depict Film Directing Human Problem Properly Understood
I believe you must live honestly and develop your abilities to the full. People who do this are the real heroes.
AKIRA KUROSAWA

Ability Believe Develop Full Heroes Honethy People Real
I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
AKIRA KUROSAWA

Especially Gift Hate Special Strong
That is what makes a real movie. The script must be something that has the power to do this.
AKIRA KUROSAWA

Make Movie Power Real Script Something
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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Anything Movie Nothing Result Talk Turn Writing Zero
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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Book Country Film Idiot Like Literature Long Make Want Wonderful

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