He is still my favourite author, and he is the one – I still think – who writes most honestly about human existence.
AKIRA KUROSAWAI like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means to never look away.
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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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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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The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.
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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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By doing this I sense instantly when something isn’t right. Watching something does not mean fixing your gaze on it, but being aware of it in a natural way.
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To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
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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.
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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.
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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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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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If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.
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When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
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The role of the artist is to not look away.
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