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.
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 like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.
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I don’t feel out of place. I think of earth as my home. If everyone thought this way, people might notice just how foolish international friction is and the would be put an end to it.
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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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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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The characters in my films try to live honestly and make the most of the lives they’ve been given.
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A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.
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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’ve been able to work for so long because I think next time, I’ll make something good.
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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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The truth is in the mystery.
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A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
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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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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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The terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public.
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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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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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I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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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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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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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 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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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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When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that 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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It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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