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.
AKIRA KUROSAWAOf all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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Adding explanation to the descriptive passages of a screenplay is the most dangerous trap you can fall into.
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I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.
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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
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A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.
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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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When I start on a film I always have a number of ideas about my project. Then one of them begins to germinate, to sprout, and it is this, which I take and work with.
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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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It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
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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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Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
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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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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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Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
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