"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."

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Source : Akira Kurosawa (2011). “Something Like An Autobiography”, p.192, Vintage

Akira Kurosawa

#Flower Quotes #Roots Quotes #Tree Quotes

“Movies' mistrust of capitalism is almost as old as the medium itself.”
“I'm not big with an audience; I get very nervous.”
“I always thought success was from inside, so it was how diversified you were as a person and how cultivated or how much you cultivated yourself.”

Source : Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. August 29, 2005.
“The musician of disordered sound, the poet of decomposed language, the painter and sculptor of the fragmented visual and tactile world: they all portray the break up of the self and, through the rearrangement and reassemble of the fragments, try to create new structures that possess wholeness, perfection, new meaning.”
“Our biggest challenge in this new century is to take an idea that seems abstract - sustainable development - and turn it into a reality for all the world's people”
“Flat muscled and honey coloured. Sea secrets in his eyes. A silver raindrop in his ear.”
“Hell is life drying up.”
“I think it's ridiculous that we even have to talk about gay rights as rights...It's gonna be as shocking as the treatment of slaves someday.”

Source : "What Regina Spektor Sees From the Cheap Seats". Interview with Hannah Levintova, www.motherjones.com. May 2012.

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