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21 " 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
22 " For me, filmmaking combines everything. That’s the reason I’ve made cinema my life’s work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music come together. But a film is still a film. "
― Akira Kurosawa , Something Like an Autobiography
23 " ربما كان علىّ أن أرجل إلى جزيرة نائية، حيث لا توجد أية معلومات، فلربما تمكنت مخيلتى من العمل هناك بحرية أكبر،واستطعت أن أحافظ على عقلى من التلوث، إذ ما من قصة واحدة أسمعها اليوم تشعرنى بالسعادة "
24 " Of course, compared to these two illustrious masters, Renoir and Ford, I am no more than a little chick. "
25 " Ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. "
26 " This is probably true of human life everywhere - a light exterior hides a dark underside. "
27 " As I remember it, the fog-like substance that clouded my brain finally vanished as if blown away by the wind. "
28 " In other words, take “myself,” subtract “movies” and the result is “zero. "
29 " It seems I come from a line that is overly emotional and deficient in reason. People have often praised us as sensitive and generous, but we appear to me to have a measure of sentimentality and absurdity in our blood. "
30 " There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself. "
31 " But, as any parent in those days would have done, he said I would have to go to art school. As a lover of Cézanne and Van Gogh, I felt that such an academic approach would be a waste of time. Nor was I eager to take another entrance examination. "
32 " As the winds of the Great Depression blew across a Japan shaken to the very foundations of her economy, proletarian movements sprang up everywhere, including the field of fine art. At the other extreme was an art movement that advocated escape from the painful realities of the hard times, something that was called, in a sort of pidgin, “eroguro nan-sensu” (“erotic-grotesque nonsense”). "
33 " But I have undertaken this series with the feeling that I must not be afraid of shaming myself, and that I should try telling myself the things I am always telling my juniors. "
34 " Unable to throw myself completely into painting, I explored literature, theater, music and film. "
35 " I had been ready to reproach her for the indignities she had caused me to suffer in the past, but suddenly I was moved by this figure of an old woman I no longer recognized, and all I could do was stare vacantly down at her. "
36 " His attitude was that in order to train his assistant directors it was worth sacrificing his own pictures. At least, that seems to me the only possible interpretation. "
37 " In matters of both film and literature I owe much to my brother’s discernment. I took special care to see every film my brother recommended. As far back as elementary school I walked all the way to Asakusa to see a movie he had said was good. "
38 " Yet the same Yama-san who educated us in this exceptional manner made the following claim in a magazine once: “All I ever taught Kurosawa was how to drink.” How is it possible to express one’s gratitude to someone so selfless? "
39 " However, my contact with the movies at this age has, I feel, no relation to my later becoming a film director. I simply enjoyed the varied and pleasant stimulation added to ordinary everyday life by watching the motion-picture screen. I relished laughing, getting scared, feeling sad and being moved to tears. "
40 " People who can’t make the simple distinction between what tastes good or bad have disqualified themselves from the human race,” was one of his pet theories. "