Kurosawa Quotes
18 quotes by 18 authors
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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, because…
— Robert Olen Butler
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Being a kid growing up with Kurosawa films and watching Sergio Leone movies just made me love what it could do to you, and how…
— Antoine Fuqua
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I was in Japan, and my assistant director had worked with Kurosawa. I used quite of number of Kurosawa's crew.
— John Boorman
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I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.
— Ted Demme
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Most directors have one masterpiece by which they are known. Kurosawa has at least eight or nine.
— Francis Ford Coppola
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Kurosawa is the pictorial Shakespeare of our time.
— Steven Spielberg
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Dolby stereo increases the possibility of emptiness in film sound at the same time that it enlarges the space that can be filled. It's this…
— Michel Chion
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I'm a huge fan of Akira Kurosawa, a big Hitchcock fan.
— Jennifer Lynch
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You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws…
— Ann Patchett
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A lot of my stories are inspired by Japanese folklore or literature or movies: I've done stories based on Kabuki and Noh plays, and on…
— Stan Sakai
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Fellini, Kurosawa, and Bunuel move in the same field as Tarkovsky. Antonioni was on his way, but expired, suffocated by his own tediousness.
— Ingmar Bergman
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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 not like that.…
— Duncan Jones
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Kurosawa was one of film's true greats... His ability to transform a vision into a powerful work of art is unparalleled. So it seemed appropriate…
— George Lucas
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The movies that made me want to make movies were action movies, and thrillers, and Kurosawa films, you know, where you have an opportunity every…
— Lawrence Kasdan
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The term 'giant' is used too often to describe artists. But in the case of Akira Kurosawa, we have one of the rare instances where…
— Martin Scorsese
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For many years, my favorite director has been the Japanese giant Akira Kurosawa.
— Henry Rollins
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I think Kurosawa was one of the first storytelling geniuses who began to change the narrative structure of films.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
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Kids these days have all gone mad' ( from the 1961 movie Yojimbo of Akira kurosawa depicting the life of 1860), elders have been thinking…
— Melchor Lim
Who Wrote These Kurosawa Quotes
18 authors contributed a total of 18 Kurosawa Quotes as follows: