I believe you must live honestly and develop your abilities to the full. People who do this are the real heroes.
AKIRA KUROSAWAIn a mad world only the mad are sane.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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I have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do.
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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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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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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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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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One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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For truly cinematic expression, the camera and the microphone must be able to cross both fire and water.
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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
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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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The role of the artist is to not look away.
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In order to find reality, each must search for his own universe, look for the details that contribute to this reality7 that one feels under the surface of things.
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It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
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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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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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