I suppose all of my films have a common theme. If I think about it, though, the only theme I can think of is really a question: Why can’t people be happier together?
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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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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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.
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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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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
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Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
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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…
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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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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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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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In order to find reality, each must search for his own universe, look for the details that contribute to this reality7 that one feels under the surface of things.
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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.
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When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
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A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.
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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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