The truth is in the mystery.
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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The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
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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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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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When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
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In a mad world only the mad are sane.
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A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
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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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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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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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I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
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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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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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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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Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages.
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