If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
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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People today have forgotten they’re really just a part of nature. Yet, they destroy the nature on which our lives depend. They always think they can make something better…
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I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.
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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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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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Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
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A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
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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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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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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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Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
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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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A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.
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The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.
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For me, filmmaking combines everything. That’s the reason I’ve made cinema my life’s work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music come together. But a film is still a film.
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