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If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.
Akira Kurosawa
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Akira Kurosawa
Age: 88 †
Born: 1910
Born: March 23
Died: 1998
Died: September 6
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Kurosawa Akira
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There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
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A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
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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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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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The great appeal of film is its relatability.
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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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The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something. 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 can't afford to hate anyone. I don't have that kind of time.
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If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
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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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Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
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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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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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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.
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In a mad world only the mad are sane.
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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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Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
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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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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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