In a mad world only the mad are sane.
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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It’s easy to explain the psychological state of a character at a particular moment, but it’s very difficult to describe it through the delicate nuances of action and dialogue. Yet it is not impossible.
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Page 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can’t speak any foreign language.
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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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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages.
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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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It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
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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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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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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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I believe this is what the medieval Noh playwright and theorist Zeami meant by ‘watching with a detached gaze.’
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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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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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There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.
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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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A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
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The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
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With a good script a good director can produce a masterpiece; with the same script a mediocre director can make a passable film. But with a bad script even a good director can’t possibly make a good film.
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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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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.
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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 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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People today have forgotten they’re really just a part of nature. Yet, they destroy the nature on which our lives depend. They always think they can make something better…
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