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.
AKIRA KUROSAWAMan is a genius when he is dreaming.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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I don’t feel out of place. I think of earth as my home. If everyone thought this way, people might notice just how foolish international friction is and the would be put an end to it.
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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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I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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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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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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People today have forgotten they’re really just a part of nature. Yet, they destroy the nature on which our lives depend. They always think they can make something better…
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When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
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The role of the artist is to not look away.
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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
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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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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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It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
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A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.
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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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