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It's so easy to manipulate an audience, but it's nearly always clear that you are being manipulated. I think even people that…
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Movie-making is the process of turning money into light. All they have at the end of the day is images flickering on…
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There were two sides to David Lean: on the one side, he was kind of a rather stiff, disciplined Englishman. And then…
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You can't get an actor to do something that is beyond his range, so you have to be aware of the range…
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When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting.
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All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.
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I only storyboard scenes that require special effects, where it is necessary to communicate through pictures.
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I look at the story, I look at the idea and just try to think of it in terms of that whole…
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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.
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I'm trying to suggest a kind of Middle Earth, in Tolkien terms. It's a contiguous world; it's like ours but different.
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The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that…
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What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person. Are we not, for most of our lives, marking time? Most…
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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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— Duncan Jones
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