I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.
AKIRA KUROSAWASomething that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages.
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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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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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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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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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That is what makes a real movie. The script must be something that has the power to do this.
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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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It’s easy to explain the psychological state of a character at a particular moment, but it’s very difficult to describe it through the delicate nuances of action and dialogue. Yet it is not impossible.
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I believe you must live honestly and develop your abilities to the full. People who do this are the real heroes.
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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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To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
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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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The truth is in the mystery.
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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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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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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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