Movie directors, or should I say people who create things, are very greedy and they can never be satisfied… That’s why they can keep on working.
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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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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I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.
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Yet pleasure in the work can’t be achieved unless you know you have put all of your strength into it and have done your best to make it come alive.
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To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
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Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
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There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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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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I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.
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If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.
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I simply do not like to show my weakness, and I hate to lose, so I am a person who tries hard. That’s all there is to me.
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One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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They don’t know it, but they’re losing nature. They don’t see that they’re going to perish. The most important things for human beings are clean air and clean water.
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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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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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Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.
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