Kurosawa Quotes

18 quotes by 18 authors

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
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
I was in Japan, and my assistant director had worked with Kurosawa. I used quite of number of Kurosawa's crew. — John Boorman
I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film. — Ted Demme
Most directors have one masterpiece by which they are known. Kurosawa has at least eight or nine. — Francis Ford Coppola
Kurosawa is the pictorial Shakespeare of our time. — Steven Spielberg
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
I'm a huge fan of Akira Kurosawa, a big Hitchcock fan. — Jennifer Lynch
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
For many years, my favorite director has been the Japanese giant Akira Kurosawa. — Henry Rollins
I think Kurosawa was one of the first storytelling geniuses who began to change the narrative structure of films. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
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: