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 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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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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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.
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One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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In order to find reality, each must search for his own universe, look for the details that contribute to this reality7 that one feels under the surface of things.
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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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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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I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.
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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
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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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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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Page 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can’t speak any foreign language.
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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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The role of the artist is to not look away.
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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.
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