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.
AKIRA KUROSAWAAdding explanation to the descriptive passages of a screenplay is the most dangerous trap you can fall into.
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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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Man is a genius when he dreams. Dream what you are capable of. The harder you dream it, the sooner it will come true.
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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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It’s easy to explain the psychological state of a character at a particular moment, but it’s very difficult to describe it through the delicate nuances of action and dialogue. Yet it is not impossible.
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If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
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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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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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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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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.
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The role of the artist is to not look away.
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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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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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While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.
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I have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do.
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There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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