I believe this is what the medieval Noh playwright and theorist Zeami meant by ‘watching with a detached gaze.’
AKIRA KUROSAWABy 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.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.
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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 truth is in the mystery.
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When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
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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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I 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.
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The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
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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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I’ve been able to work for so long because I think next time, I’ll make something good.
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The great appeal of film is its relatability.
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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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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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Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people.
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but ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. People who delight in torturing defenseless children or tiny creatures are in reality insane.
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