The truth is in the mystery.
AKIRA KUROSAWAI 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.
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 believe this is what the medieval Noh playwright and theorist Zeami meant by ‘watching with a detached gaze.’
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To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
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Man is a genius when he dreams. Dream what you are capable of. The harder you dream it, the sooner it will come true.
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If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.
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I had wanted to make The Idiot long before Rashomon. Since I was little I’ve liked Russian literature, but I find that I like Dostoevsky the best and had long thought that this book would make a wonderful film.
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Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages.
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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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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 can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.
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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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Page 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can’t speak any foreign language.
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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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It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
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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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