Ikiru Kurosawa Quotes & Sayings

The world belongs to people with IQs of 120. Anything much greater or less amounts to a liability. — Rick Bayan

Paris dictates fashion to the whole world. — Maria Callas

She had asked the older women: "What is that fire?" And they had replied: "It is we who are burning. — Primo Levi

My reality is the misconceptions about me. — Tori Spelling

Cynicism makes you feel smart, I know it, even when you aren't smart. — Richard Ford

You don't look for jobs. You don't phone up 10 clubs and say, Here I am. You are offered the job. I was in Benfica many years ago. I was leaving the training ground and I had a car after me. It went on for 10 minutes. Anyhow, he stopped and I stopped and he said, I'm from the Italian embassy. Ah yes, and what do you want? I want your phone number because Roma wants you as a manager next season. Three months later I was sitting on the bench in Roma. I don't think the rest of working society works like football. — Sven-Goran Eriksson

The expected vertical line of Ikiru's narrative breaks when Kurosawa does a flash-forward in the middle of the film. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom. — Buddha