The characters in my films try to live honestly and make the most of the lives they’ve been given.
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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There is something that might be called cinematic beauty. It can only be expressed in a film, and it must be present for that film to be a moving work.
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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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When I start on a film I always have a number of ideas about my project. Then one of them begins to germinate, to sprout, and it is this, which I take and work with.
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One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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Take me, subtract movies, and you get 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 am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
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Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
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I suppose all of my films have a common theme. If I think about it, though, the only theme I can think of is really a question: Why can’t people be happier together?
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People 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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Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages.
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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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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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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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