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.
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…
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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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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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Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people.
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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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For truly cinematic expression, the camera and the microphone must be able to cross both fire and water.
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The truth is in the mystery.
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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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If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.
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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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If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
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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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Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages.
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To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means to never look away.
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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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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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