Akira Kurosawa Quotations

Akira Kurosawa (23 March 1910 - 6 September 1998) Japanese film director, producer, and screenwriter.

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I like silent pictures and I always have ... I wanted to restore some of this beauty. I thought of it, I remember in this way: one of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film. [Rashomon]
- Quoted in Donald Richie, The Films of Akira Kurosawa, 3rd ed., University of California Press, 1999, ISBN 0-520-22037-4