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.
AKIRA KUROSAWAI like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.
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I like silent pictures and I always have … I wanted to restore some of this beauty. I thought of it, I remember in this way.
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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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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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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.
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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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One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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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 have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do.
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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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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 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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Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
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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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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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