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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.

— Akira Kurosawa

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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)

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