I’ve been able to work for so long because I think next time, I’ll make something good.
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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but ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. People who delight in torturing defenseless children or tiny creatures are in reality insane.
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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 have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do.
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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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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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Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
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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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I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.
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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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To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
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I don’t feel out of place. I think of earth as my home. If everyone thought this way, people might notice just how foolish international friction is and the would be put an end to it.
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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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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 you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
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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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