What nurtures this root and makes it grow into a tree is the script. What makes the tree bear flowers and fruit is the directing.
AKIRA KUROSAWAIf you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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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 believe you must live honestly and develop your abilities to the full. People who do this are the real heroes.
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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 am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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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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When I start on a film I always have a number of ideas about my project. Then one of them begins to germinate, to sprout, and it is this, which I take and work with.
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The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
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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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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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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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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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That is what makes a real movie. The script must be something that has the power to do this.
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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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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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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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