A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.
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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The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.
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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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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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I’ve been able to work for so long because I think next time, I’ll make something good.
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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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but ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. People who delight in torturing defenseless children or tiny creatures are in reality insane.
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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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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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There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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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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If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
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Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
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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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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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