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.
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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I suppose all of my films have a common theme. If I think about it, though, the only theme I can think of is really a question: Why can’t people be happier together?
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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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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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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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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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Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.
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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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I believe this is what the medieval Noh playwright and theorist Zeami meant by ‘watching with a detached gaze.’
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I believe you must live honestly and develop your abilities to the full. People who do this are the real heroes.
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I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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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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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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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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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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That is what makes a real movie. The script must be something that has the power to do this.
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