During the shooting of a scene the director’s eye has to catch even the minutest detail. But this does not mean glaring concentratedly at the set.
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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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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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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I simply do not like to show my weakness, and I hate to lose, so I am a person who tries hard. That’s all there is to me.
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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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Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages.
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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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While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.
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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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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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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 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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When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
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The role of the artist is to not look away.
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The truth is in the mystery.
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