In Kurosawa's films, the tragedy is that this strong man…

You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like…

— Ann Patchett

“For the casual viewer, Kurosawa’s films can be an exercise in endurance.”

— Jerry White

Being a kid growing up with Kurosawa films and watching Sergio Leone movies just made me love what it could do to you, and…

— Antoine Fuqua

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

— Roy Lee

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

— John Boorman

In the neighborhood around Waseda, there were all these movie theaters, so every morning I left the house and watched movies instead of going…

— Hirokazu Koreeda

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,…

— Robert Olen Butler

When I met Akira Kurosawa in Japan, one question he asked me was, "How did you actually make the children act the way they…

— Abbas Kiarostami

I'm a huge fan of Akira Kurosawa, a big Hitchcock fan.

— Jennifer Lynch

Most directors have one masterpiece by which they are known. Kurosawa has at least eight or nine.

— Francis Ford Coppola

Kurosawa is my hero, and I've taught courses on his films, and I love what he does, and 'Rashomon' is, I think, his second…

— Scott Derrickson

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

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

The term 'giant' is used too often to describe artists. But in the case of Akira Kurosawa, we have one of the rare instances…

— Martin Scorsese

[Akiro] Kurosawa, no doubt, was a big influence. Movies sometimes more than directors have influenced me: The Grapes of Wrath, by John Ford, was…

— Costa-Gavras

There's this guy: his name, Sedik Ali. He's like the African Kurosawa. You know how Kurosawa does stuff from feudal Japan? This guy does…

— John Singleton