Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
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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That is what makes a real movie. The script must be something that has the power to do this.
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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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If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
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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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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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The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.
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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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The great appeal of film is its relatability.
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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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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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In a mad world only the mad are sane.
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If I were to write anything at all, it would turn out to be nothing but talk about movies. In other words, take ‘myself,’ subtract ‘movies,’ and the result is ‘zero.’
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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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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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