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.
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.
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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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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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If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
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A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.
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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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Page 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can’t speak any foreign language.
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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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Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
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I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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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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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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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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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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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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Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.
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