If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
AKIRA KUROSAWAThe films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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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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Adding explanation to the descriptive passages of a screenplay is the most dangerous trap you can fall into.
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One of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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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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If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.
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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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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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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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I have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do.
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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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I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.
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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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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’ve been able to work for so long because I think next time, I’ll make something good.
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To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
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