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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.

— Akira Kurosawa Something Like an Autobiography (1981)

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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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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.

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