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 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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I have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do.
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The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
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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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The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.
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If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.
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With a good script a good director can produce a masterpiece; with the same script a mediocre director can make a passable film. But with a bad script even a good director can’t possibly make a good film.
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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.
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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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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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When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
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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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I believe this is what the medieval Noh playwright and theorist Zeami meant by ‘watching with a detached gaze.’
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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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I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.
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There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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