If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
AKIRA KUROSAWAThe root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
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but ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. People who delight in torturing defenseless children or tiny creatures are in reality insane.
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While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.
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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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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 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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The root of any film project for me is this inner 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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The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.
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To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means to never look away.
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For truly cinematic expression, the camera and the microphone must be able to cross both fire and water.
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In a mad world only the mad are sane.
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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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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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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 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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