Seven Samurai Quotes

#1. Before I go off and direct a movie, I always look at four films. They tend to be The Seven Samurai, Lawrence Of Arabia, It's A Wonderful Life and The Searchers.

Steven Spielberg

#2. One of the amazing things about 'Seven Samurai' is that there are a lot of characters. And considering you have so many, and they all have shaved heads, and you've got good guys and bad guys and peasants, you get to understand a lot of them without too much being said.

George Lucas

#3. Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.

Orlando Bloom

#4. As a Western, 'The Magnificent Seven' was a pretty good film. I don't think it was as interesting or as multi-faceted as 'Seven Samurai.'

George Lucas

#5. 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

#6. Architecture is essentially Human; it is the Human spirit manifesting itself. For when a Man builds, there, you've got him; you know exactly what, who and how that Man is.

Frank Lloyd Wright

#7. Each story we approach in the same way, with curiosity and interest and determination to get behind the image.

Martin Bashir

#8. If she wanted you, her eyes would buy you out - and you won't even know it. She
was three parts devil, and two parts human; and what remained - unchained
spirit.

Prashant Chopra

#9. Usually people think that it is the musicians who create the music, but in fact it is music who creates the musicians.

Robert Fripp

#10. Humans enter this world and awaken to a simple truth: We must find our story with this great epic of being.

Brian Swimme

#11. Life itself is a strange mixture. We have to take it as it is, try to understand it, and then to better it.

Rabindranath Tagore

#12. What we do not earn ourselves," he said, "is never truly ours. It can always be taken away. But even if we lose everything we work for, the achievement is ours forever.

C.W. Gortner

#13. I'm used to comic books being reimagined, different takes on some of our beloved superheroes.

Len Wiseman

#14. Her younger son, twenty, was assigned to a factory that made railroad equipment, but since it provided no salary he was actually paying his workplace three dollars per month so he could stay home to help his mother with the pigs and moonshine.

Barbara Demick

#15. In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.

Francois Rabelais

#16. Ghost Dog: In the words of the ancients, one should make his decision within the space of seven breaths. It is a matter of being determined and having the spirit to break through to the other side.

Jim Jarmusch

#17. Gentleness is given to those who have learned that God will not have his kingdom triumph through the violence of the world, for such a triumph came through the meekness of a cross.

Stanley Hauerwas