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…
AKIRA KUROSAWAPeople 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…
AKIRA KUROSAWAI like silent pictures and I always have … I wanted to restore some of this beauty. I thought of it, I remember in this way.
AKIRA KUROSAWATake me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
AKIRA KUROSAWAI end up writing not from my own will, but from theirs-they come alive as I write and make me do things that I couldn’t have planned.
AKIRA KUROSAWAPage 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can’t speak any foreign language.
AKIRA KUROSAWAHe is still my favourite author, and he is the one – I still think – who writes most honestly about human existence.
AKIRA KUROSAWAHuman beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.
AKIRA KUROSAWAMan is a genius when he dreams. Dream what you are capable of. The harder you dream it, the sooner it will come true.
AKIRA KUROSAWAAdding explanation to the descriptive passages of a screenplay is the most dangerous trap you can fall into.
AKIRA KUROSAWAI have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do.
AKIRA KUROSAWAOf all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
AKIRA KUROSAWAFor 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.
AKIRA KUROSAWAThe role of the artist is to not look away.
AKIRA KUROSAWAWhen 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.
AKIRA KUROSAWAI believe this is what the medieval Noh playwright and theorist Zeami meant by ‘watching with a detached gaze.’
AKIRA KUROSAWAThat is what makes a real movie. The script must be something that has the power to do this.
AKIRA KUROSAWA