If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.
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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I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.
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I’ve been able to work for so long because I think next time, I’ll make something good.
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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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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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I believe this is what the medieval Noh playwright and theorist Zeami meant by ‘watching with a detached gaze.’
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The role of the artist is to not look away.
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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 terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public.
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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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In a mad world only the mad are sane.
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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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The characters in my films try to live honestly and make the most of the lives they’ve been given.
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I believe that it is this quality that draws people to come and see a film, and that it is the hope of attaining this quality that inspires the filmmaker to make his film in the first place.
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To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
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For truly cinematic expression, the camera and the microphone must be able to cross both fire and water.
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