The term 'giant' is used too often to describe artists. But in the case of Akira Kurosawa, we have one of the rare instances where the term fits.

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.

You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.

Every scene is a lesson. Every shot is a school. Let the learning continue.

As a child I had terrible asthma.

More than ninety percent of directing a picture is the right casting

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

I love movies - it's my whole life, and that's it.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

Always stay open to surprise.

I’m not interested in a realistic look, not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel.

You can spend your whole life building a wall of facts between you and anything real.

Liberals love to strike generous, humanitarian poses with other people's lives.

Do not be afraid of mistakes, provided you do not make the same one twice.

In real life, as well as in experiments, people can come to believe things that never really happened.

Defiance rose up like vomit. I swung back and yelled, "Don't ever do that again!

I understand that absinthe makes the tart grow fonder.

Action and adaptability create opportunity.

There is no point in launching technology before customers are ready to use it.

Don't think of what's past!" said she. "I am not going to think outside of now. Why should we! Who knows what tomorrow has in store?