The terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public.
AKIRA KUROSAWATake me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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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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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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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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If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
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The role of the artist is to not look away.
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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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I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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In a mad world only the mad are sane.
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There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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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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I believe this is what the medieval Noh playwright and theorist Zeami meant by ‘watching with a detached gaze.’
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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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I don’t feel out of place. I think of earth as my home. If everyone thought this way, people might notice just how foolish international friction is and the would be put an end to it.
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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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The truth is in the mystery.
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