Movie directors, or should I say people who create things, are very greedy and they can never be satisfied… That’s why they can keep on working.
AKIRA KUROSAWAHuman beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
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By doing this I sense instantly when something isn’t right. Watching something does not mean fixing your gaze on it, but being aware of it in a natural way.
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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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A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
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To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
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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 to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means to never look away.
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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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I suppose all of my films have a common theme. If I think about it, though, the only theme I can think of is really a question: Why can’t people be happier together?
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One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.
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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.
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Man is a genius when he dreams. Dream what you are capable of. The harder you dream it, the sooner it will come true.
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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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