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The role of the artist is to not look away.
Akira Kurosawa
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Akira Kurosawa
Age: 88 †
Born: 1910
Born: March 23
Died: 1998
Died: September 6
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In a mad world only the mad are sane.
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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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I am not a special person, I am not especially strong I am not especially gifted. 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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Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
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A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
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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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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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Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
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I can't afford to hate anyone. I don't have that kind of time.
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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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If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.
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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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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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In order to find reality, each must search for his own universe, look for the details that contribute to this reality7 that one feels under the surface of things. 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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I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.
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If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
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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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