Akira Kurosawa Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• 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.

  Akira Kurosawa

  Theatre, Together, Cinema

• With a good script a good director can produce a masterpiece; with the same script a mediocre director can make a passable film. But with a bad script even a good director can’t possibly make a good film. For truly cinematic expression, the camera and the microphone must be able to cross both fire and water. That is what makes a real movie. The script must be something that has the power to do this.

  Akira Kurosawa

  Real, Fire, Expression

• 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?

  Akira Kurosawa

  Thinking, People, Together

  Akira Kurosawa, Bert Cardullo (2008). “Akira Kurosawa: Interviews”, p.162, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.

  Akira Kurosawa

  Film Directing, Common, Problem

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• 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.

  Akira Kurosawa

  Real, Believe, Hero

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• 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.

  Akira Kurosawa

  Heart, Done, Alive

  Akira Kurosawa (2011). “Something Like An Autobiography”, p.177, Vintage

• When I start on a film I always have a number of ideas about my project. Then one of them begins to germinate, to sprout, and it is this, which I take and work with. My films come from my need to say a particular thing at a particular time. The beginning of any film for me is this need to express something. It is to make it nurture and grow that I write my script- it is directing it that makes my tree blossom and bear fruit.

  Akira Kurosawa

  Writing, Ideas, Numbers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one... ...I had wanted to make The Idiot long before Rashomon. Since I was little I've liked Russian literature, but I find that I like Dostoevsky the best and had long thought that this book would make a wonderful film. He is still my favourite author, and he is the one - I still think - who writes most honestly about human existence.

  Akira Kurosawa

  Book, Writing, Thinking

• There is something that might be called cinematic beauty. It can only be expressed in a film, and it must be present for that film to be a moving work. When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film. I believe that it is this quality that draws people to come and see a film, and that it is the hope of attaining this quality that inspires the filmmaker to make his film in the first place.

  Akira Kurosawa

  Believe, Moving, People

• 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.

  Akira Kurosawa

  Art, Technique, Way

  Akira Kurosawa, Donald Richie (1987). “Rashomon”, p.18, Rutgers University Press

• 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.

  Akira Kurosawa

  Flower, Roots, Tree

  Akira Kurosawa (2011). “Something Like An Autobiography”, p.192, Vintage

• The great appeal of film is its relatability.

  Akira Kurosawa

  Film, Appeals, Relatability

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