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.
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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They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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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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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
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I don’t feel out of place. I think of earth as my home. If everyone thought this way, people might notice just how foolish international friction is and the would be put an end to it.
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Movie directors, or should I say people who create things, are very greedy and they can never be satisfied… That’s why they can keep on working.
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They don’t know it, but they’re losing nature. They don’t see that they’re going to perish. The most important things for human beings are clean air and clean water.
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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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To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means never to look away.
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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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That is what makes a real movie. The script must be something that has the power to do this.
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While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.
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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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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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