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.
AKIRA KUROSAWAA film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
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When I start on a film I always have a number of ideas about my project. Then one of them begins to germinate, to sprout, and it is this, which I take and work with.
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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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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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The characters in my films try to live honestly and make the most of the lives they’ve been given.
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When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
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If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.
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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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What nurtures this root and makes it grow into a tree is the script. What makes the tree bear flowers and fruit is the directing.
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Page 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can’t speak any foreign language.
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I believe that it is this quality that draws people to come and see a film, and that it is the hope of attaining this quality that inspires the filmmaker to make his film in the first place.
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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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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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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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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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