I believe this is what the medieval Noh playwright and theorist Zeami meant by ‘watching with a detached gaze.’
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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A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
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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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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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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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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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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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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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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.
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In a mad world only the mad are sane.
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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 you must live honestly and develop your abilities to the full. People who do this are the real heroes.
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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 characters in my films try to live honestly and make the most of the lives they’ve been given.
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I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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