I want to be able to make westerns like Akira Kurosawa makes westerns. — Sam Peckinpah Copy Share Image
“For the casual viewer, Kurosawa’s films can be an exercise in endurance.” — Jerry White Copy Share Image
For many years, my favorite director has been the Japanese giant Akira Kurosawa. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Most directors have one masterpiece by which they are known. Kurosawa has at least eight or nine. — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
I admire Akira Kurosawa. I have a deep admiration for him and I would love to make films like that. — Takashi Miike Copy Share Image
Kurosawa is my hero, and I've taught courses on his films, and I love what he does, and 'Rashomon' is, I think,… — Scott Derrickson Copy Share Image
The term 'giant' is used too often to describe artists. But in the case of Akira Kurosawa, we have one of the… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
I was in Japan, and my assistant director had worked with Kurosawa. I used quite of number of Kurosawa's crew. — John Boorman Copy Share Image
Being a kid growing up with Kurosawa films and watching Sergio Leone movies just made me love what it could do to… — Antoine Fuqua Copy Share Image
I think Kurosawa was one of the first storytelling geniuses who began to change the narrative structure of films. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
You know the movie "Rashomon" from [Takeshi] Kurosawa, when all the people in the forest see something different? Each performance was like… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
I've wanted to work with [Kairo aka Pulse director] Kiyoshi Kurosawa, but he has not been making horror movies recently. — Roy Lee Copy Share Image
The contemporary Japanese directors who are well-known in the West - say, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Takeshi Kitano, Naomi Kawase - are mostly unknown… — Hirokazu Koreeda Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The movies that made me want to make movies were action movies, and thrillers, and Kurosawa films, you know, where you have… — Lawrence Kasdan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
[Akiro] Kurosawa, no doubt, was a big influence. Movies sometimes more than directors have influenced me: The Grapes of Wrath, by John… — Costa-Gavras Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In the neighborhood around Waseda, there were all these movie theaters, so every morning I left the house and watched movies instead… — Hirokazu Koreeda Copy Share Image
When I met Akira Kurosawa in Japan, one question he asked me was, "How did you actually make the children act the… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
Akira Kurosawa, David Lean and Alfred Hitchcock were the main inspirations for 'Samurai Jack,' along with a lot of '70s cinema. — Genndy Tartakovsky Copy Share Image
The expected vertical line of Ikiru's narrative breaks when Kurosawa does a flash-forward in the middle of the film. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
Fellini, Kurosawa, and Bunuel move in the same field as Tarkovsky. Antonioni was on his way, but expired, suffocated by his own… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
There's this guy: his name, Sedik Ali. He's like the African Kurosawa. You know how Kurosawa does stuff from feudal Japan? This… — John Singleton Copy Share Image
Kurosawa was one of film's true greats. His ability to transform a vision into a powerful work of art is unparalleled. — George Lucas Copy Share Image
My favorite Tyler Perry movie? Ugh, how can you decide? For me, it's basically like: Kurosawa, Tyler Perry, Martin Scorsese, in that… — Billy Eichner Copy Share Image
I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film. — Ted Demme Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Dolby stereo increases the possibility of emptiness in film sound at the same time that it enlarges the space that can be… — Michel Chion Copy Share Image
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![“I've wanted to work with [Kairo aka Pulse director] Kiyoshi Kurosawa, but he has not been making horror movies recently.” quote by Roy Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c11/roy-lee-88286_aka_i-ve-wanted-to-work-with-kairo-aka-pulse_180576.jpg)
![“I remember, the first time I saw a [Andrei] Tarkovsky film, I was shocked by it. I didn't know what to do. I was fascinated, because suddenly I realized that film could have so many more layers to it than what I had imagined before. Then others, like Kurosawa and Fellini, were like a new discovery…” quote by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/942/alejandro-gonzalez-inarritu-12_country_i-remember-the-first-time-i-saw-a-andrei_1790638.jpg)
![“[Akiro] Kurosawa, no doubt, was a big influence. Movies sometimes more than directors have influenced me: The Grapes of Wrath, by John Ford, was an extraordinary discovery. Sergei Eisenstein, of course. Later on, [Ingmar] Bergman.” quote by Costa-Gavras](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/dff/costa-gavras-22487_bergman_akiro-kurosawa-no-doubt-was-a-big-influe_213833.jpg)
