The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.
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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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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During the shooting of a scene the director’s eye has to catch even the minutest detail. But this does not mean glaring concentratedly at the set.
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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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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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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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I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.
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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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It is to make it nurture and grow that I write my script- it is directing it that makes my tree blossom and bear fruit.
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One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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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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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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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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In a mad world only the mad are sane.
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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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