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.
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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One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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He is still my favourite author, and he is the one – I still think – who writes most honestly about human existence.
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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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People today have forgotten they’re really just a part of nature. Yet, they destroy the nature on which our lives depend. They always think they can make something better…
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It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
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A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.
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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that 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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Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
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There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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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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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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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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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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