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.
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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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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I simply do not like to show my weakness, and I hate to lose, so I am a person who tries hard. That’s all there is to me.
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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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It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
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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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A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.
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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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To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means never to look away.
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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 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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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 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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Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
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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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One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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