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Akira Kurosawa
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“In a mad world, only the mad are sane!”
Akira Kurosawa (1910–1998) first seen 1985 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ran (1985)
“I like silent pictures and I always have. They are often so much more beautiful than sound pictures are. Perhaps they had to be. At any rate 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 (1910–1998) first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the style of the film Rashomon, as quoted in The Films of Akira Kurosawa (1998) by Donald Richie, 3rd edition, p. 79
“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.”
Akira Kurosawa (1910–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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. They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.”
Akira Kurosawa (1910–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1910–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1910–1998) first seen 1981 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Akira Kurosawa Something Like an Autobiography (1981)
“Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing. This script portrays such human beings — the kind who cannot survive without lies to make them feel they are better people than they really are. It even shows this sinful need for flattering falsehood going beyond the grave — even the character who dies cannot give up his lies when he speaks to the living through a medium. Egoism is a sin the human being carries with him from birth; it is the most difficult to redeem. This film is like a strange picture scroll that is unrolled and displayed by the ego. 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 (1910–1998) first seen 1982 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Criterion Collection essay on Rashamon, excerpted from Something Like an Autobiography as translated by Audie E. Bock (1982)