There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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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If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
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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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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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It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
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A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
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The role of the artist is to not look away.
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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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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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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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The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
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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 Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.
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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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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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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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