The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.
AKIRA KUROSAWAThe root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
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I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
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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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They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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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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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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To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
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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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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.
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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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If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
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I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.
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The great appeal of film is its relatability.
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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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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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The role of the artist is to not look away.
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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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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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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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I’ve been able to work for so long because I think next time, I’ll make something good.
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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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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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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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During the shooting of a scene the director’s eye has to catch even the minutest detail. But this does not mean glaring concentratedly at the set.
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To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means never to look away.
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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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