People today have forgotten they’re really just a part of nature. Yet, they destroy the nature on which our lives depend. They always think they can make something better…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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 characters in my films try to live honestly and make the most of the lives they’ve been given.
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The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
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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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I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.
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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 am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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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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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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