Kurosawa Movies Quotes

#1. I've watched too many Kurosawa movies, she thought, but couldn't quite abandon the idea. The imagery was a lovely way of turning angst and suicidal ideation into honor and noble sacrifice.

James S.A. Corey

#2. He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

Socrates

#3. If I were to write anything at all, it would turn out to be nothing but talk about movies. In other words, take 'myself,' subtract 'movies,' and the result is 'zero.'

Akira Kurosawa

#4. Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.

Akira Kurosawa

#5. You mustn't expect too much," I said. "Happiness consists of wanting what you get.

Peter Stamm

#6. Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and the light in which we look at them depends upon our own judgment.

Petrarch

#7. [Akiro] Kurosawa, no doubt, was a big influence. Movies sometimes more than directors have influenced me: The Grapes of Wrath, by John Ford, was an extraordinary discovery. Sergei Eisenstein, of course. Later on, [Ingmar] Bergman.

Costa-Gavras

#8. A lot of my stories are inspired by Japanese folklore or literature or movies: I've done stories based on Kabuki and Noh plays, and on Kurosawa's 'Yojimbo' movies.

Stan Sakai

#9. Without a dream to light your way, the word is a very dark place.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#10. I am a Christian in the only sense in which He wished anyone to be: sincerely attached to His doctrines in preference to all others.

Thomas Jefferson

#11. I've wanted to work with [Kairo aka Pulse director] Kiyoshi Kurosawa, but he has not been making horror movies recently.

Roy Lee

#12. Let us not curse the darkness. Let us kindle little lights.

Dada Vaswani

#13. I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.

Ted Demme

#14. For the casual viewer, Kurosawa's films can be an exercise in endurance.

Jerry White

#15. The costs of government are bound to be much higher than those of the free market ... The State cannot calculate well and therefore cannot gauge its costs accurately.

Murray Rothbard

#16. Being a kid growing up with Kurosawa films and watching Sergio Leone movies just made me love what it could do to you, and how it could influence you - make you dream.

Antoine Fuqua

#17. When you are racing in an able-bodied competition, you're all equal and you go out there and try your best, and that's what counts.

Natalie Du Toit

#18. The movies that made me want to make movies were action movies, and thrillers, and Kurosawa films, you know, where you have an opportunity every day to shoot it in an unusual way. I was looking for something like that.

Lawrence Kasdan

#19. I'm a huge lover of 'Seven Samurai' and anything Kurosawa ever did. The comedic work out of Japan in terms of martial arts movies, some of them are hilarious.

Ann Nocenti