The truth is in the mystery.
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.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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By doing this I sense instantly when something isn’t right. Watching something does not mean fixing your gaze on it, but being aware of it in a natural way.
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The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
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Adding explanation to the descriptive passages of a screenplay is the most dangerous trap you can fall into.
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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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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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Page 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can’t speak any foreign language.
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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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Yet pleasure in the work can’t be achieved unless you know you have put all of your strength into it and have done your best to make it come alive.
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The role of the artist is to not look away.
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I like silent pictures and I always have … I wanted to restore some of this beauty. I thought of it, I remember in this way.
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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.
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It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
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I 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.
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I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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