I can't afford to hate anyone. I don't have that kind of time.
Interpretation
Hating others is a waste of time and energy that could be better spent on positive pursuits.
This quote by Akira Kurosawa highlights the importance of prioritizing our time and emotional energy. To hate someone is to devote precious time to negative feelings, which can be damaging to our mental health and personal growth. Instead, Kurosawa suggests that we should focus on more constructive activities that enrich our lives and relationships.
In practice
In a speech about personal growth, one might say, 'As Akira Kurosawa wisely noted, I can't afford to hate anyone. I don't have that kind of time.'
Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one... ...I had wanted to make The Idiot long before Rashomon. Since I was little I've liked Russian literature, but I find that I like Dostoevsky the best and had long thought that this book would make a wonderful film. He is still my favourite author, and he is the one - I still think - who writes most honestly about human existence.
For me, filmmaking combines everything. That's the reason I've made cinema my life's work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music come together. But a film is still a film.
A truly good movie is enjoyable too. Thereβs nothing complicated about it.
The role of the artist is to not look away.
but ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. People who delight in torturing defenseless children or tiny creatures are in reality insane. The terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public.
The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something. What nurtures this root and makes it grow into a tree is the script. What makes the tree bear flowers and fruit is the directing.
A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.
It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.
Screwing things up is a virtue. Being correct is never the point. I have an almost fanatically correct assistant, and by the time she re-spells my words and corrects my punctuation, I can't read what I wrote. Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.
To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He breaks his engagements, leaves his letters unanswered, neglects his family duties incorrigibly, because he is powerless to turn his attention down and back from those more interesting trains of imagery with which his genius constantly occupies his mind.
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