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.
AKIRA KUROSAWAOf all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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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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For me, filmmaking combines everything. That’s the reason I’ve made cinema my life’s work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music come together. But a film is still a film.
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The role of the artist is to not look away.
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Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
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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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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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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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One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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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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When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
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It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
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It is to make it nurture and grow that I write my script- it is directing it that makes my tree blossom and bear fruit.
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With a good script a good director can produce a masterpiece; with the same script a mediocre director can make a passable film. But with a bad script even a good director can’t possibly make a good film.
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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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