That is what makes a real movie. The script must be something that has the power to do this.
AKIRA KUROSAWAThe films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
More Akira Kurosawa Quotes
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If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.
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I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.
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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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There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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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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To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means to never look away.
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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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Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.
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The role of the artist is to not look away.
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To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
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Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.
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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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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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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.
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What nurtures this root and makes it grow into a tree is the script. What makes the tree bear flowers and fruit is the directing.
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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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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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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making.
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The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something.
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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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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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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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The terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public.
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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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Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
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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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