The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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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They don’t know it, but they’re losing nature. They don’t see that they’re going to perish. The most important things for human beings are clean air and clean water.
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I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.
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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 am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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If I were to write anything at all, it would turn out to be nothing but talk about movies. In other words, take ‘myself,’ subtract ‘movies,’ and the result is ‘zero.’
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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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I believe this is what the medieval Noh playwright and theorist Zeami meant by ‘watching with a detached gaze.’
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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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If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
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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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A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.
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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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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’ve been able to work for so long because I think next time, I’ll make something good.
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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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