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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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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Movie directors, or should I say people who create things, are very greedy and they can never be satisfied… That’s why they can keep on working.
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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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In a mad world only the mad are sane.
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One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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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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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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Adding explanation to the descriptive passages of a screenplay is the most dangerous trap you can fall into.
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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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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 role of the artist is to not look away.
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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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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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I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.
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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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