The role of the artist is to not look away.
AKIRA KUROSAWAOne of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.
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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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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 Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.
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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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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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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’ve been able to work for so long because I think next time, I’ll make something good.
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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 like silent pictures and I always have … I wanted to restore some of this beauty. I thought of it, I remember in this way.
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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.
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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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When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
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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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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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