Kurosawa Quotes
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Kurosawa Quotes & Sayings
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The great appeal of film is its relatability.
— Akira Kurosawa
I'm a huge fan of Akira Kurosawa, a big Hitchcock fan.
— Jennifer Lynch
I was in Japan, and my assistant director had worked with Kurosawa. I used quite of number of Kurosawa's crew.
— John Boorman
Most directors have one masterpiece by which they are known. Kurosawa has at least eight or nine.
— Francis Ford Coppola
I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.
— Ted Demme
Man is a genius when he dreams. Dream what you are capable of. The harder you dream it, the sooner it will come true.
— Akira Kurosawa
Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.
— Akira Kurosawa
If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.
— Akira Kurosawa
Kurosawa is the pictorial Shakespeare of our time.
— Steven Spielberg
The truth is in the mystery.
— Akira Kurosawa
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
To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes.
— Akira Kurosawa
Now I want to make it plain that 'The Virgin Spring' must be regarded as an aberration. It's touristic, a lousy imitation of Kurosawa.
— Ingmar Bergman
Yes, sir. Certainly, it was I who found the body.
— Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
— Akira Kurosawa
I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.
— Akira Kurosawa
In a mad world, only the mad are sane. - AKIRA KUROSAWA
— Michael R. Fletcher
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.
— Martin Scorsese
Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
— Akira Kurosawa
The expected vertical line of Ikiru's narrative breaks when Kurosawa does a flash-forward in the middle of the film.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
In Kurosawa's films, the tragedy is that this strong man was crushed by corruption or mistrust at the end.
— Claire Denis
Fellini, Kurosawa, and Bunuel move in the same field as Tarkovsky. Antonioni was on his way, but expired, suffocated by his own tediousness.
— Ingmar Bergman
In a mad world, only the mad are sane.
— Akira Kurosawa
The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.
— Akira Kurosawa
I can't afford to hate anyone. I don't have that kind of time.
— Akira Kurosawa
The role of the artist is to not look away.
— Akira Kurosawa
Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
— Akira Kurosawa
I think Kurosawa was one of the first storytelling geniuses who began to change the narrative structure of films.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
