If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.
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
-
-
Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
For me, filmmaking combines everything. That’s the reason I’ve made cinema my life’s work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music come together. But a film is still a film.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
Yet 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.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
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…
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
For truly cinematic expression, the camera and the microphone must be able to cross both fire and water.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
I simply do not like to show my weakness, and I hate to lose, so I am a person who tries hard. That’s all there is to me.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
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 KUROSAWA -
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.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
What nurtures this root and makes it grow into a tree is the script. What makes the tree bear flowers and fruit is the directing.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.
AKIRA KUROSAWA -
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.
AKIRA KUROSAWA






