There is something that might be called cinematic beauty. It can only be expressed in a film, and it must be present for that film to be a moving work.
AKIRA KUROSAWAIn order to find reality, each must search for his own universe, look for the details that contribute to this reality7 that one feels under the surface of things.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people.
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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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One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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For truly cinematic expression, the camera and the microphone must be able to cross both fire and water.
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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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If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.
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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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The role of the artist is to not look away.
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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’ve been able to work for so long because I think next time, I’ll make something good.
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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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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 don’t feel out of place. I think of earth as my home. If everyone thought this way, people might notice just how foolish international friction is and the would be put an end to it.
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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.
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