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.’
AKIRA KUROSAWAPage 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can’t speak any foreign language.
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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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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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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.
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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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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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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.
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I believe you must live honestly and develop your abilities to the full. People who do this are the real heroes.
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I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.
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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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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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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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