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 KUROSAWASomething that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages.
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Adding explanation to the descriptive passages of a screenplay is the most dangerous trap you can fall into.
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If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
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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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I like silent pictures and I always have … I wanted to restore some of this beauty. I thought of it, I remember in this way.
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While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.
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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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The role of the artist is to not look away.
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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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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.
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It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
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The truth is in the mystery.
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To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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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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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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