A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
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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I’ve been able to work for so long because I think next time, I’ll make something good.
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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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One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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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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He is still my favourite author, and he is the one – I still think – who writes most honestly about human existence.
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The great appeal of film is its relatability.
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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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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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A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.
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I have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do.
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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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Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages.
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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.
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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 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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