One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
AKIRA KUROSAWAI’ve been able to work for so long because I think next time, I’ll make something good.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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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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Page 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can’t speak any foreign language.
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When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
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I believe this is what the medieval Noh playwright and theorist Zeami meant by ‘watching with a detached gaze.’
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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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While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.
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Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
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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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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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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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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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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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By doing this I sense instantly when something isn’t right. Watching something does not mean fixing your gaze on it, but being aware of it in a natural way.
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To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
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