Kurosawa Quotes

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

— John Boorman

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…

— Costa-Gavras

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

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Hirokazu Koreeda

Fellini, Kurosawa, and Bunuel move in the same field as Tarkovsky. Antonioni was on his way, but expired, suffocated by his own…

— Ingmar Bergman

Kurosawa is the pictorial Shakespeare of our time.

— Steven Spielberg

I want to be able to make westerns like Akira Kurosawa makes westerns.

— Sam Peckinpah

I remember, the first time I saw a [Andrei] Tarkovsky film, I was shocked by it. I didn't know what to do.…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

The movies that made me want to make movies were action movies, and thrillers, and Kurosawa films, you know, where you have…

— Lawrence Kasdan

I'm not Akira Kurosawa. He used to write...He used to write a completely new spec script over a couple of nights. I'm…

— Duncan Jones

The contemporary Japanese directors who are well-known in the West - say, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Takeshi Kitano, Naomi Kawase - are mostly unknown…

— Hirokazu Koreeda

You know the movie "Rashomon" from [Takeshi] Kurosawa, when all the people in the forest see something different? Each performance was like…

— Marina Abramovic

Kurosawa was one of film's true greats. His ability to transform a vision into a powerful work of art is unparalleled.

— George Lucas

A lot of my stories are inspired by Japanese folklore or literature or movies: I've done stories based on Kabuki and Noh…

— Stan Sakai

Akira Kurosawa is the pictorial William Shakespeare of our time.

— Steven Spielberg

Kurosawa was one of film's true greats... His ability to transform a vision into a powerful work of art is unparalleled. So…

— George Lucas

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

— Ann Patchett

Dolby stereo increases the possibility of emptiness in film sound at the same time that it enlarges the space that can be…

— Michel Chion

I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.

— Ted Demme