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 KUROSAWAThe films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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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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While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.
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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 truth is in the mystery.
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To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
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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 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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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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In a mad world only the mad are sane.
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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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I believe this is what the medieval Noh playwright and theorist Zeami meant by ‘watching with a detached gaze.’
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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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Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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He is still my favourite author, and he is the one – I still think – who writes most honestly about human existence.
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