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.
AKIRA KUROSAWAHuman beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
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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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If I were to write anything at all, it would turn out to be nothing but talk about movies. In other words, take ‘myself,’ subtract ‘movies,’ and the result is ‘zero.’
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To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means never to look away.
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I have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do.
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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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I’ve been able to work for so long because I think next time, I’ll make something good.
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If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.
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With a good script a good director can produce a masterpiece; with the same script a mediocre director can make a passable film. But with a bad script even a good director can’t possibly make a good 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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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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A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.
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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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I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.
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