If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
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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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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The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
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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.
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I end up writing not from my own will, but from theirs-they come alive as I write and make me do things that I couldn’t have planned.
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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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To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means never to look away.
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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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The role of the artist is to not look away.
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Man is a genius when he dreams. Dream what you are capable of. The harder you dream it, the sooner it will come true.
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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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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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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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It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
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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 to make it nurture and grow that I write my script- it is directing it that makes my tree blossom and bear fruit.
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