While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.
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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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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That is what makes a real movie. The script must be something that has the power to do this.
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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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For truly cinematic expression, the camera and the microphone must be able to cross both fire and water.
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They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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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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I believe this is what the medieval Noh playwright and theorist Zeami meant by ‘watching with a detached gaze.’
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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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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 can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.
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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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In 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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One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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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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