Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.
AKIRA KUROSAWAOf all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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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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I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.
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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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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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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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It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
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People today have forgotten they’re really just a part of nature. Yet, they destroy the nature on which our lives depend. They always think they can make something better…
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I like silent pictures and I always have … I wanted to restore some of this beauty. I thought of it, I remember in this way.
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He is still my favourite author, and he is the one – I still think – who writes most honestly about human existence.
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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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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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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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One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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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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Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages.
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