Akira Kurosawa is the pictorial William Shakespeare of our…

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

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

— John Boorman

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

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

— Roy Lee

[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

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

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

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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

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

— Francis Ford Coppola

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

— Jennifer Lynch

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

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

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

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

— Jerry White

I admire Akira Kurosawa. I have a deep admiration for him and I would love to make films like that.

— Takashi Miike