While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.
AKIRA KUROSAWAOf all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.
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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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Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
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In a mad world only the mad are sane.
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Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.
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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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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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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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When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
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One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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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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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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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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There is something that might be called cinematic beauty. It can only be expressed in a film, and it must be present for that film to be a moving work.
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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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