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.
AKIRA KUROSAWATake me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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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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While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.
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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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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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If I were to write anything at all, it would turn out to be nothing but talk about movies. In other words, take ‘myself,’ subtract ‘movies,’ and the result is ‘zero.’
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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 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 you must live honestly and develop your abilities to the full. People who do this are the real heroes.
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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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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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A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
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It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
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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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To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
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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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The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.
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The terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public.
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I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.
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The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
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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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The great appeal of film is its relatability.
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When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
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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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One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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In a mad world only the mad are sane.
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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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