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Akira Kurosawa Quotes

1910–1998 Japan

Akira Kurosawa (黒澤明 Kurosawa Akira, also 黒沢明) (23 March 1910 – 6 September 1998) was a Japanese film director, producer, and screenwriter. Regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema, Kurosawa directed 30 films in a career spanning 57 years.

Japan
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Also known as: Kurosawa, Akira

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There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.

Something Like an Autobiography (1981)

Egoism is a sin the human being carries with him from birth; it is the most difficult to redeem.

Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.

I like silent pictures and I always have. They are often so much more beautiful than sound pictures are. Perhaps they had to be.

In a mad world, only the mad are sane!

Ran (1985)

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.

Something Like an Autobiography (1981)

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.

Something Like an Autobiography (1981)

You say that you can’t understand this script at all, but that is because the human heart itself is impossible to understand. If you focus on the impossibility of truly understanding human psychology and read the script one more time, I think you will grasp the point of it.

A film should appeal to sophisticated, profound-thinking people while at the same time entertaining simplistic people. A truly good movie is really enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it. A truly good movie is interesting and easy to understand.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Akira Kurosawa (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.