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Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages.

Akira Kurosawa

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 KUROSAWA

Hate Lose Person Show Simpy Try Weakness
To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means to never look away.
AKIRA KUROSAWA

Artist Away Look Mean never Reality Search
What nurtures this root and makes it grow into a tree is the script. What makes the tree bear flowers and fruit is the directing.
AKIRA KUROSAWA

Bear Direct Flower Fruit Grow Make Nurture Root Script Tree
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.
AKIRA KUROSAWA

Achieve Alive Best Come Done Pleasure Strength Unless Work
Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.
AKIRA KUROSAWA

Being Honest Human Themselves Unable
In a mad world only the mad are sane.
AKIRA KUROSAWA

Crazy Depression Insane Mad World
If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
AKIRA KUROSAWA

Director Greater Screenwriter Want
Man is a genius when he dreams. Dream what you are capable of. The harder you dream it, the sooner it will come true.
AKIRA KUROSAWA

Come Dream Genius Harder Man True
A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.
AKIRA KUROSAWA

Crew Film Heart Made Reveal Spirit
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 KUROSAWA

Alive Come End Make Own Plan Thing Will Writing
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.
AKIRA KUROSAWA

Book Country Film Idiot Like Literature Long Make Want Wonderful
I don’t feel out of place. I think of earth as my home. If everyone thought this way, people might notice just how foolish international friction is and the would be put an end to it.
AKIRA KUROSAWA

Earth End Feel Foolish Friction Home International Notice Out Place
Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
AKIRA KUROSAWA

Movie Substact Take Zero
They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
AKIRA KUROSAWA

Certain Creator Itself Nothing Often Reveal Straightforward Themselves World
During the shooting of a scene the director’s eye has to catch even the minutest detail. But this does not mean glaring concentratedly at the set.
AKIRA KUROSAWA

Believe Carch Detail Director Eye Mean Minute Scene
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.
AKIRA KUROSAWA

Aware Being Fix Instantly Nature Right Sense Something Watch Way

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