I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.
AKIRA KUROSAWAThe terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public.
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While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.
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Page 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can’t speak any foreign language.
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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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The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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If I were to write anything at all, it would turn out to be nothing but talk about movies. In other words, take ‘myself,’ subtract ‘movies,’ and the result is ‘zero.’
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The truth is in the mystery.
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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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Adding explanation to the descriptive passages of a screenplay is the most dangerous trap you can fall into.
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When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
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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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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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I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.
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The role of the artist is to not look away.
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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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