If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
AKIRA KUROSAWAOf all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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The role of the artist is to not look away.
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If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.
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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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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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A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
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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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Page 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can’t speak any foreign language.
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Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
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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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That is what makes a real movie. The script must be something that has the power to do this.
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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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To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
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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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The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.
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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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