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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. I've been able to work for so long because I think next time, I'll make something good.

Akira Kurosawa

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Akira Kurosawa
Age: 88 †
Born: 1910
Born: March 23
Died: 1998
Died: September 6
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I can't afford to hate anyone. I don't have that kind of time.
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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 share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
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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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It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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The truth is in the mystery.
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The role of the artist is to not look away.
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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. They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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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... 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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To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes.
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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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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 dreams. Dream what you are capable of. The harder you dream it, the sooner it will come true.
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Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
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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. 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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If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.
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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making. 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. A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.
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I have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do. 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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