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.
AKIRA KUROSAWAThe characters in my films try to live honestly and make the most of the lives they’ve been given.
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I had wanted to make The Idiot long before Rashomon. Since I was little I’ve liked Russian literature, but I find that I like Dostoevsky the best and had long thought that this book would make a wonderful 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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Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
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If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
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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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Page 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can’t speak any foreign language.
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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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Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages.
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When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
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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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The role of the artist is to not look away.
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It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
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There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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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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While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.
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