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.
AKIRA KUROSAWAThere 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.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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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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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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The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
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If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.
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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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It’s easy to explain the psychological state of a character at a particular moment, but it’s very difficult to describe it through the delicate nuances of action and dialogue. Yet it is not impossible.
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The role of the artist is to not look away.
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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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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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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.
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To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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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 terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public.
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