The truth is in the mystery.
AKIRA KUROSAWATake me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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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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A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
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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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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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I like silent pictures and I always have … I wanted to restore some of this beauty. I thought of it, I remember in this way.
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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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Page 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can’t speak any foreign language.
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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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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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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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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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I have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do.
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Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
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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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