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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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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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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Yet pleasure in the work can’t be achieved unless you know you have put all of your strength into it and have done your best to make it come alive.
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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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I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.
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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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That is what makes a real movie. The script must be something that has the power to do this.
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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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There is something that might be called cinematic beauty. It can only be expressed in a film, and it must be present for that film to be a moving work.
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If I were to write anything at all, it would turn out to be nothing but talk about movies. In other words, take ‘myself,’ subtract ‘movies,’ and the result is ‘zero.’
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I suppose all of my films have a common theme. If I think about it, though, the only theme I can think of is really a question: Why can’t people be happier together?
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In order to find reality, each must search for his own universe, look for the details that contribute to this reality7 that one feels under the surface of things.
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In a mad world only the mad are sane.
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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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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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