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.
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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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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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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For truly cinematic expression, the camera and the microphone must be able to cross both fire and water.
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A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.
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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 to never look away.
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I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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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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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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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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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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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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It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
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