The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
AKIRA KUROSAWAThe great appeal of film is its relatability.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.
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My films come from my need to say a particular thing at a particular time. The beginning of any film for me is this need to express something.
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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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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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When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
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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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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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Page 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can’t speak any foreign language.
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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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Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
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When I start on a film I always have a number of ideas about my project. Then one of them begins to germinate, to sprout, and it is this, which I take and work with.
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He is still my favourite author, and he is the one – I still think – who writes most honestly about human existence.
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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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Adding explanation to the descriptive passages of a screenplay is the most dangerous trap you can fall into.
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I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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