The role of the artist is to not look away.
AKIRA KUROSAWAI like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.
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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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If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
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With a good script a good director can produce a masterpiece; with the same script a mediocre director can make a passable film. But with a bad script even a good director can’t possibly make a good film.
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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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For me, filmmaking combines everything. That’s the reason I’ve made cinema my life’s work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music come together. But a film is still a 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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It is to make it nurture and grow that I write my script- it is directing it that makes my tree blossom and bear fruit.
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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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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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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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A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.
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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 had wanted to make The Idiot long before Rashomon. Since I was little I’ve liked Russian literature, but I find that I like Dostoevsky the best and had long thought that this book would make a wonderful film.
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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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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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