Akira Kurosawa
Most influential Asian filmmaker
Most quoted
"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."
— from Interview/Statement
"With a good script, a good director can produce a masterpiece. With the same script, a mediocre director can produce a passable film. But with a bad script even a good director can't possibly make a good film."
— from Interview/Statement
"The most important thing is to have a good script. If you have a good script, you can make a good film even with bad actors. But if you have a bad script, you can't make a good film even with good actors."
— from Interview
All quotes by Akira Kurosawa (408)
I think that the purpose of art is to make people think, to make them feel, and to make them question.
The truth is often painful, but it is always necessary.
Life is a dream, and we are all just dreaming it together.
The only way to truly live is to embrace death.
We are all just travelers on a journey, and the destination is not as important as the journey itself.
The most important thing in life is to find your own path.
I believe that there is a spiritual dimension to life, and that we are all connected to something larger than ourselves.
The world is full of contradictions, and it is up to us to make sense of them.
Beauty is not just in the eye of the beholder, it is in the soul of the artist.
The human heart is a complex and mysterious thing.
We are all searching for something, and that something is often ourselves.
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
The world is a stage, and all the men and women merely players.
To be alive is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
The artist must be a mirror of his time.
There is nothing more beautiful than the truth.
Life is a series of choices, and each choice has consequences.
The greatest wisdom is to know yourself.
Death is not the end, but a new beginning.
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
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