I like silent pictures and I always have … I wanted to restore some of this beauty. I thought of it, I remember in this way.
AKIRA KUROSAWAThe great appeal of film is its relatability.
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If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
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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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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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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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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.
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It is to make it nurture and grow that I write my script- it is directing it that makes my tree blossom and bear fruit.
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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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While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.
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The terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public.
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I 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.
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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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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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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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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 am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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