Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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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The characters in my films try to live honestly and make the most of the lives they’ve been given.
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When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
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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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A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.
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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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There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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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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I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.
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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 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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To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means to never look away.
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I believe this is what the medieval Noh playwright and theorist Zeami meant by ‘watching with a detached gaze.’
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I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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For me, filmmaking combines everything. That’s the reason I’ve made cinema my life’s work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music come together. But a film is still a film.
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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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