Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
AKIRA KUROSAWAHuman beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
AKIRA KUROSAWAThe films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
AKIRA KUROSAWAI believe you must live honestly and develop your abilities to the full. People who do this are the real heroes.
AKIRA KUROSAWAWhen it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
AKIRA KUROSAWADuring 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.
AKIRA KUROSAWAI 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.
AKIRA KUROSAWAI can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.
AKIRA KUROSAWAThe root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
AKIRA KUROSAWAI’ve been able to work for so long because I think next time, I’ll make something good.
AKIRA KUROSAWAA film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.
AKIRA KUROSAWATo be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means to never look away.
AKIRA KUROSAWAI 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.
AKIRA KUROSAWAThe role of the artist is to not look away.
AKIRA KUROSAWAIt is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
AKIRA KUROSAWAOne of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
AKIRA KUROSAWAA truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
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