Akira Kurosawa Quotes
Man is a genius when he dreams. Dream what you are capable of. The harder you dream it, the sooner it will come true.
Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.
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?
To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means to never look away.
I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.
Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
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.
The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.
If I were to write anything at all, it would turn out to be nothing but talk about movies. In other words, take 'myself,' subtract 'movies,' and the result is 'zero.'
Today’s youngsters will unfortunately never know the thrills we experienced dubbing movies in the era of Rashomon.
But I prefer to think of my brother as a negative strip of film that led to my own development as a positive image.
IT IS QUITE ENOUGH IF A HUMAN BEING HAS BUT ONE FIELD WHERE HE OR SHE IS STRONG. IF A HUMAN BEING WERE STRONG IN EVERY FIELD, IT WOULDN'T BE NICE FOR OTHER PEOPLE, WOULD IT?
