It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
AKIRA KUROSAWAMan is a genius when he is dreaming.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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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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Adding explanation to the descriptive passages of a screenplay is the most dangerous trap you can fall into.
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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 role of the artist is to not look away.
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It’s easy to explain the psychological state of a character at a particular moment, but it’s very difficult to describe it through the delicate nuances of action and dialogue. Yet it is not impossible.
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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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I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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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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There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
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The characters in my films try to live honestly and make the most of the lives they’ve been given.
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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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If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.
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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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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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