Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.
AKIRA KUROSAWAMan is a genius when he dreams. Dream what you are capable of. The harder you dream it, the sooner it will come true.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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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 films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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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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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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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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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 am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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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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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 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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That is what makes a real movie. The script must be something that has the power to do this.
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I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.
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A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
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