Kurosawa Director Quotes & Sayings

People treat me like family, 'cause I've always treated them like family. — Richard Simmons

Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end. — Malcolm Lowry

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

The only description for Nolan in the script was that he's a very bad dresser. I put on a red windbreaker and every other ugly, ill-fitting thing I could dig out. He was potentially written as a clean-cut nerd, but I wanted a darker spin. — Gabriel Mann

My words are easy to understand and easy to perform,
Yet no man under heaven knows them or practices them. — Laozi

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

Never trust the translation or interpretation of something without first trusting its interpreter. — Suzy Kassem

With a good script a good director can produce a masterpiece; with the same script a mediocre director can make a passable film. But with a bad script even a good director can't possibly make a good film. For truly cinematic expression, the camera and the microphone must be able to cross both fire and water. That is what makes a real movie. The script must be something that has the power to do this. — Akira Kurosawa

It could be our own private universe. — Robin Talley

I've wanted to work with [Kairo aka Pulse director] Kiyoshi Kurosawa, but he has not been making horror movies recently. — Roy Lee

You soothe my soul. You fill it with so tender a sentiment that it is sweet to live during the time that I see you. — Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse

I was in Japan, and my assistant director had worked with Kurosawa. I used quite of number of Kurosawa's crew. — John Boorman

When your thoughts are beautiful the world becomes loving and wonderful. — Debasish Mridha

For many years, my favorite director has been the Japanese giant Akira Kurosawa. — Henry Rollins

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