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.
AKIRA KUROSAWAThe terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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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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A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.
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A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
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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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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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I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.
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When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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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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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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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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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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I’ve been able to work for so long because I think next time, I’ll make something good.
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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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In a mad world only the mad are sane.
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