To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means never to look away.
AKIRA KUROSAWAOf all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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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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In a mad world only the mad are sane.
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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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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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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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I 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 believe you must live honestly and develop your abilities to the full. People who do this are the real heroes.
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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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Man is a genius when he dreams. Dream what you are capable of. The harder you dream it, the sooner it will come true.
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The truth is in the mystery.
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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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Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.
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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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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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