The terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public.
AKIRA KUROSAWAYet 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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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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In a mad world only the mad are sane.
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Page 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can’t speak any foreign language.
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Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.
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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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To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means to never 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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Adding explanation to the descriptive passages of a screenplay is the most dangerous trap you can fall into.
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The role of the artist is to not look away.
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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.
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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.
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The great appeal of film is its relatability.
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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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Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages.
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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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