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.
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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The truth is in the mystery.
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I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.
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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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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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Page 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can’t speak any foreign language.
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A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
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The role of the artist is to not look away.
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Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
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If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
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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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The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.
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The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
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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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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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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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