When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
AKIRA KUROSAWAThe characters in my films try to live honestly and make the most of the lives they’ve been given.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
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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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One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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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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While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.
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There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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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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If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.
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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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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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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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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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In a mad world only the mad are sane.
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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 the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
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