Akira Kurosawa Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• The characters in my films try to live honestly and make the most of the lives they've been given. I believe you must live honestly and develop your abilities to the full. People who do this are the real heroes.

  Akira Kurosawa

  Real, Believe, Hero

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.

  Akira Kurosawa

  Character, May, Matter

  Akira Kurosawa (2011). “Something Like An Autobiography”, p.129, Vintage

• Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages. Adding explanation to the descriptive passages of a screenplay is the most dangerous trap you can fall into. It’s easy to explain the psychological state of a character at a particular moment, but it’s very difficult to describe it through the delicate nuances of action and dialogue. Yet it is not impossible.

  Akira Kurosawa

  Believe, Fall, Character

  "Something Like An Autobiography".

• I have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do. I end up writing not from my own will, but from theirs-they come alive as I write and make me do things that I couldn't have planned.

  Akira Kurosawa

  Character, Writing, Ideas

  Akira Kurosawa, Bert Cardullo (2008). “Akira Kurosawa: Interviews”, p.71, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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