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 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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I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.
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It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
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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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A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
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I end up writing not from my own will, but from theirs-they come alive as I write and make me do things that I couldn’t have planned.
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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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To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
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During the shooting of a scene the director’s eye has to catch even the minutest detail. But this does not mean glaring concentratedly at the set.
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That is what makes a real movie. The script must be something that has the power to do this.
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One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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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 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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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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