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.
Interpretation
Film projects stem from a deep need for expression, evolved through scripting and directing.
Akira Kurosawa highlights the essential journey of filmmaking from a foundational emotional need to express oneself. He illustrates that while the script serves as the nourishing element necessary for this creative root to grow, it is the directing that allows the project to flourish and reach its full potential, akin to a tree producing flowers and fruit.
In practice
During a film festival, reflecting on the filmmaking process.
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.
I can't afford to hate anyone. I don't have that kind of time.
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. There’s 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.
We attempted perfection; we wanted an object to be without flaw, so we cut the papers with a razor, pasted them down meticulously, but it buckled and was ruined... that is why we decided to tear prewrinkled paper, so that in the finished work of art imperfection would be an integral part, as if at birth death were built in.
The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading
Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate, and that is an aspect that I have to puncture. I do that by showing the world as I really find it.
No story lives unless someone wants to listen. So thank you, all of you.
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word.
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