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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.
Akira Kurosawa
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Akira Kurosawa
Age: 88 †
Born: 1910
Born: March 23
Died: 1998
Died: September 6
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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 can't afford to hate anyone. I don't have that kind of time.
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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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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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The characters in my films try to live honestly and make the most of the lives they've been given. I believe you must live honestly and develop your abilities to the full. People who do this are the real heroes.
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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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Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.
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If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
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There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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The role of the artist is to not look away.
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It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
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A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
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I like silent pictures and I always have ... I wanted to restore some of this beauty. I thought of it, I remember in this way: one of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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Page 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can't speak any foreign language, 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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I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.
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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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Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
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To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes.
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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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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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