Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
AKIRA KUROSAWAAlthough 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 simply do not like to show my weakness, and I hate to lose, so I am a person who tries hard. That’s all there is to me.
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It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
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The great appeal of film is its relatability.
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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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A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
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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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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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Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
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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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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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What nurtures this root and makes it grow into a tree is the script. What makes the tree bear flowers and fruit is the directing.
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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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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means never to 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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