A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
Interpretation
A great movie should be simple and enjoyable for everyone.
Akira Kurosawa emphasizes that the essence of a truly good movie lies in its ability to entertain and provide joy, without unnecessary complexity. This notion suggests that films should connect with audiences emotionally and be accessible to all, highlighting the fundamental role of enjoyment in cinematic experiences.
In practice
You can use this quote at a film festival to highlight the importance of storytelling.
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.
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.
In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.
I want to create a world with objects and surroundings that are human, more romantic, and less sterile.
There is absolutely no substitute for the best. Good food cannot be made of inferior ingredients masked with high flavor. It is true thrift to use the best ingredients available and to waste nothing.
The symbol of all art is the Prism. The goal is unrealism. The method is destructive. To break up the white light of objective realism, into the secret glories which it contains.
I am always worried that over-planning and outlining will kill the magic of writing; most of the world I created in 'California' occurred via good old sexy sentence-making.
You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.
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