My films come from my need to say a particular thing at a particular time. The beginning of any film for me is this need to express something.
AKIRA KUROSAWAThey 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.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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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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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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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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Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
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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.
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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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While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.
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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 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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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.
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Adding explanation to the descriptive passages of a screenplay is the most dangerous trap you can fall into.
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When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
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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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