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.
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.
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In a mad world only the mad are sane.
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Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
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To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means never to look away.
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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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The role of the artist is to not look away.
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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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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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Movie directors, or should I say people who create things, are very greedy and they can never be satisfied… That’s why they can keep on working.
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He is still my favourite author, and he is the one – I still think – who writes most honestly about human existence.
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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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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 am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
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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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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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