Akira Kurosawa Quotes

If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of. ~ Akira Kurosawa

There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself. [Pg.189] ~ Akira Kurosawa

Man is a genius when he is dreaming. ~ Akira Kurosawa

The great Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa said that to be an artist means never to avert your eyes. And that's the hardest thing, because we want to flinch. The artist must go into the white hot center of himself, and our impulse when we get there is to look away and avert our eyes. ~ Robert Olen Butler

Granting that there is some truth to the theory that defects in society give rise to the emergence of criminals, I still maintain that those who use this theory as a defense of criminality are overlooking the fact that there are many people in this defective society who survive without resorting to crime. The argument to the contrary is pure sophistry. ~ Akira Kurosawa

If I were to write anything at all, it would turn out to be nothing but talk about movies. In other words, take 'myself,' subtract 'movies,' and the result is 'zero.' ~ Akira Kurosawa

I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself. ~ Akira Kurosawa

No matter where I go in the world, although I can't speak any foreign language, I don't feel out of place. I think of earth as my home. If everyone thought this way, people might notice just how foolish international friction is and they would put an end to it. ~ Akira Kurosawa

A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There's nothing complicated about it. ~ Akira Kurosawa

As if Japan weren't small enough to begin with, I fail to understand why it is necessary to think of it in even smaller units. No matter where I go in the world, although I can't speak any foreign language, I don't feel out of place. I think of the earth as my home. If everyone thought this way, people might notice just how foolish international friction is, and they would put an end to it. We are, after all, at a point where it is almost narrow-minded to think merely in geocentric terms. Human beings have launched satellites into outer space, and yet they still grovel on earth looking at their own feet like wild dogs. What is to become of our planet? ~ Akira Kurosawa

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

The role of the artist is to not look away. ~ Akira Kurosawa

I can't afford to hate anyone. I don't have that kind of time. ~ Akira Kurosawa

IT IS QUITE ENOUGH IF A HUMAN BEING HAS BUT ONE FIELD WHERE HE OR SHE IS STRONG. IF A HUMAN BEING WERE STRONG IN EVERY FIELD, IT WOULDN'T BE NICE FOR OTHER PEOPLE, WOULD IT? ~ 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

The great appeal of film is its relatability. ~ Akira Kurosawa

I have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do. I end up writing not from my own will, but from theirs-they come alive as I write and make me do things that I couldn't have planned. ~ Akira Kurosawa

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Remember！That's war！You're all in one boat！He who thinks only about himeself will destroy himeself, too！
Such selfishness will not be tolerated！"
「いいか！戦とはそういうものだ！人を守ってこそ自分も守れる！己のことばかり考えるやつは己をも滅ぼすやつだ！」 ~ Akira Kurosawa The Seven Samurai

When I met Akira Kurosawa in Japan, one question he asked me was, "How did you actually make the children act the way they do? I do have children in my films but I find that I reduce and reduce their presence until I have to get rid of them because there's no way that I can direct them." ~ Abbas Kiarostami

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

To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes. ~ Akira Kurosawa

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

Ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. ~ Akira Kurosawa

The truth is in the mystery. ~ Akira Kurosawa

I'm a huge fan of Akira Kurosawa, a big Hitchcock fan. ~ Jennifer Lynch

Mifune had a kind of talent I had never encountered before in the Japanese film world. It was, above all, the speed with which he expressed himself that was astounding. The ordinary Japanese actor might need ten feet of film to get across an impression; Mifune needed only three feet. The speed of his movements was such that he said in a single action what took ordinary actors three separate movements to express. He put forth everything directly and boldly, and his sense of timing was the keenest I had ever seen in a Japanese actor. And yet with all his quickness he also had surprisingly fine sensibilities. ~ Akira Kurosawa

Yes, sir. Certainly, it was I who found the body. ~ Ryunosuke Akutagawa

I'm not Akira Kurosawa. He used to write ... He used to write a completely new spec script over a couple of nights. I'm not like that. It takes me a long time to put a film together that I want to make. ~ Duncan Jones

If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter. ~ Akira Kurosawa

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

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

It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination. ~ Akira Kurosawa

I think I'll go to yoga to clear this negative energy before today's orgy scene. I wanna go in with a positive attitude. November ~ Asa Akira

You should know a weapon doesn't make the man. ~ Akira Toriyama

On the path of the budo one does not strive for victory over an opponent. One strive to avoid defeat by one's own self. ~ Akira Toriyama

Yes. Corey Feldman Lookalike was coming toward me. Corey Feldman Lookalike arrives in front of Asa. COREY FELDMAN LOOKALIKE Hi, I'm Corey Feldman. ~ Asa Akira

Illusions... or real illusions. Within the illusions hide real illusions... from the real illusions, the illusions are created. Within the truth hides the lie... within the lie hides the truth. That is the Mist -Rokudo Mukuro ~ Akira Amano

Our case, we used the organometallic compounds. Additionally, we need one important element, that is base. Without base, the acidic coupling reaction using organoboron compounds cannot proceed nicely. So, that is very important point in our cross-coupling reaction. ~ Akira Suzuki

Ancient whore secret:
to give enjoyable head,
enjoy giving head. ~ Asa Akira

I'm a huge lover of 'Seven Samurai' and anything Kurosawa ever did. The comedic work out of Japan in terms of martial arts movies, some of them are hilarious. ~ Ann Nocenti

You didn't tell me that!' said Akira

But you didn't even give me a chance to tell you! You wouldn't even trust me at first!' said Shirogane

Th-thats because you looked so weird!! ~ Kairi Sorano

Too much FANTASY loses REALITY, too much HOPE may seem somehow EMPTY. ~ Akira Toriyama

If you want to make films, you'll watch Kurosawa. If you want to play a violin, you listen to Seghetti. Same with somebody who has the ambition to play in the NBA. I watch a basketball game; I enjoy it. Somebody who really wants to learn to play is studying whatever is most magnificent that's going on out there. ~ Robert Pinsky

But it is not out of pride that I do not surrender-"
"I do not surrender therefor I am proud" -Hibari Kyoya ~ Akira Amano

In the neighborhood around Waseda, there were all these movie theaters, so every morning I left the house and watched movies instead of going to class. The experience of encountering films then is one of my greatest memories. Before that I'd never paid any attention to directors, but there I was taking a crash course in Ozu, Kurosawa, Naruse, Truffaut, Renoir, Fellini. Because I've always been naturally a more introspective person, I was more interested in becoming a screenwriter than a director. ~ Hirokazu Koreeda

If a girl has baby wipes in her house, but no baby - I'd say she will most likely be down to let you put it in her ass. "I ~ Asa Akira

Serial killing
definition: must hit three,
just like a gangbang. ~ Asa Akira

In my family, there were Kei and Minoru and then there were the rest. Everyone in my family is very opinionated and everyone tried to join the debate. But by the time my turn came, there was nothing left to say. I couldn't keep pace, so I looked to do my own things. ~ Akira Mori

My love for Neo-Tokyo is a bulbous mass
of post-human organic circuitry.
Cyperpunk is my mother tongue.
My love is a man-machine interface gun. ~ Yann Rousselot

I think there's a little me hiding behind your leg, Chichi."
"I'm Goten."
"I'm Goku. Hi!"
...
"Daddy! ~ Akira Toriyama

A shadow archive and an archive of shadows, the literary architectonic demands a resistance to excessive illumination. ~ Akira Mizuta Lippit

Being a kid growing up with Kurosawa films and watching Sergio Leone movies just made me love what it could do to you, and how it could influence you - make you dream. ~ Antoine Fuqua

Over all, I want you to discover the joy of creation by your own hand ... The possibility of creation from paper is infinite. ~ Akira Yoshizawa

But...If that's true, then you're not...we thought you...Akira? ~ Katsuhiro Otomo

I remember, the first time I saw a [Andrei] Tarkovsky film, I was shocked by it. I didn't know what to do. I was fascinated, because suddenly I realized that film could have so many more layers to it than what I had imagined before. Then others, like Kurosawa and Fellini, were like a new discovery for me, another country. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Tell her I got detention for defending her honour," Alec shouted in the distance.
"Did he really?"
"Well, he got detention, but mostly for calling Akira a close-minded troglodyte," she said. ~ Cecily White

But life is too short to masturbate silently, ~ Asa Akira

Gokudera: Anyway I don't like that guy.
Tsuna: Huh? Why not?
Gokudera: Anyone older than me is my enemy.
Tsuna: [shocked - thinking to himself] God! That's alot of enemies! ~ Akira Amano

The movies that made me want to make movies were action movies, and thrillers, and Kurosawa films, you know, where you have an opportunity every day to shoot it in an unusual way. I was looking for something like that. ~ Lawrence Kasdan

Borges's extreme architecture attempts to visualize the universe by assigning to every object real and unreal, now and yet to come, a code or sign, a corresponding figure within the Library. It seeks to render totality visible, to effect a total visibility and visuality. The Library of Babel is a view of the universe inside and out, an X-ray of the universe and universal X-ray, seen from within and without. It is a representation of everywhere: a perfect duplication of the universe. And of you: universal. An endless and eternal cinema, an imaginary archive that extends into the universe until it is indistinguishable from it, until you are indistinguishable from the universe. ~ Akira Mizuta Lippit

I've watched too many Kurosawa movies, she thought, but couldn't quite abandon the idea. The imagery was a lovely way of turning angst and suicidal ideation into honor and noble sacrifice. ~ James S.A. Corey

Merleau-Ponty's painting inhabits the same rhetoric as early cinema: it makes the invisible visible, or rather it makes visibility visible; it forms from the thresholds of the visible and invisible world, an order, mode, or aesthetic of visuality. Not only of the small or fast, but of visibility as such. The visuality of the visible and the invisible is found in the mixture of the body and its world, of your body and your world, all your worlds, all your bodies in this world and all those others. Painting is the process by which the visuality of the visible and invisible is made manifest: "Painting mixes up all our categories in laying out its oneiric universe of carnal essences, of effective likenesses, of mute meanings." Each painting is a universal archive, a picture of the universe, a universal image - and like a dream. ~ Akira Mizuta Lippit

One master those arts for health in mind and body, for the ability to live one's life as courageously, uniquely, and energetically as one wishes! ~ Akira Toriyama

In total, I have spent 35 years at Hokkaido University as a staff member - 2 and a half in the Faculty of Science, and the other 32 and a half in the Faculty of Engineering. Other than about two years of study in America and a few months in other places overseas, most of my life has been spent at the Faculty of Engineering. ~ Akira Suzuki