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.
AKIRA KUROSAWAThe films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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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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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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The truth is in the mystery.
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The characters in my films try to live honestly and make the most of the lives they’ve been given.
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Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people.
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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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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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Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages.
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I had wanted to make The Idiot long before Rashomon. Since I was little I’ve liked Russian literature, but I find that I like Dostoevsky the best and had long thought that this book would make a wonderful film.
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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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Page 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can’t speak any foreign language.
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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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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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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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