Man is a genius when he dreams. Dream what you are capable of. The harder you dream it, the sooner it will come true.
AKIRA KUROSAWAHuman beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
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It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
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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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Page 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can’t speak any foreign language.
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People today have forgotten they’re really just a part of nature. Yet, they destroy the nature on which our lives depend. They always think they can make something better…
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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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That is what makes a real movie. The script must be something that has the power to do this.
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While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.
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The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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The truth is in the mystery.
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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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