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.
AKIRA KUROSAWAI had wanted to make The Idiot long before Rashomon. Since I was little I’ve liked Russian literature, but I find that I like Dostoevsky the best and had long thought that this book would make a wonderful 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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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.
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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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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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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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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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If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
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The truth is in the mystery.
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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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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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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 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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They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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By doing this I sense instantly when something isn’t right. Watching something does not mean fixing your gaze on it, but being aware of it in a natural way.
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