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 KUROSAWAI believe you must live honestly and develop your abilities to the full. People who do this are the real heroes.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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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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If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.
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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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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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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 root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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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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It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
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I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.
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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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Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages.
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The role of the artist is to not look away.
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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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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.
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