To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means never to look away.
AKIRA KUROSAWAPeople 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…
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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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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The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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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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My films come from my need to say a particular thing at a particular time. The beginning of any film for me is this need to express something.
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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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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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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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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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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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In order to find reality, each must search for his own universe, look for the details that contribute to this reality7 that one feels under the surface of things.
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I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.
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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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Page 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can’t speak any foreign language.
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