The terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public.
AKIRA KUROSAWAThe films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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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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I have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do.
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The truth is in the mystery.
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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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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?
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Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.
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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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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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A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
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They don’t know it, but they’re losing nature. They don’t see that they’re going to perish. The most important things for human beings are clean air and clean water.
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That is what makes a real movie. The script must be something that has the power to do this.
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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.
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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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When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film.
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With a good script a good director can produce a masterpiece; with the same script a mediocre director can make a passable film. But with a bad script even a good director can’t possibly make a good film.
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