Kurosawa Quotes

Kurosawa Quote of the day

I want to be able to make westerns like Akira Kurosawa makes westerns.

Most directors have one masterpiece by which they are known. Kurosawa has at least eight or nine.

Fellini, Kurosawa, and Bunuel move in the same field as Tarkovsky. Antonioni was on his way, but expired, suffocated by his own tediousness.

The term 'giant' is used too often to describe artists. But in the case of Akira Kurosawa, we have one of the rare instances where the term fits.

Being a kid growing up with Kurosawa films and watching Sergio Leone movies just made me love what it could do to you, and how it could influence you - make you dream.

The contemporary Japanese directors who are well-known in the West - say, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Takeshi Kitano, Naomi Kawase - are mostly unknown to Japanese, particularly of the younger generation.

I was in Japan, and my assistant director had worked with Kurosawa. I used quite of number of Kurosawa's crew.

Kurosawa was one of film's true greats. His ability to transform a vision into a powerful work of art is unparalleled.

You know the movie "Rashomon" from [Takeshi] Kurosawa, when all the people in the forest see something different? Each performance was like that.

Akira Kurosawa is the pictorial William Shakespeare of our time.

I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.

For many years, my favorite director has been the Japanese giant Akira Kurosawa.

I'm a huge fan of Akira Kurosawa, a big Hitchcock fan.

I've wanted to work with [Kairo aka Pulse director] Kiyoshi Kurosawa, but he has not been making horror movies recently.