Lisa

“To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then, by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, or forms expressed in words, so to transmit that feeling that others may experience the same feeling—this is the activity of art.”
― Leo Tolstoy, What is Art?

“Within each film I have become one with many different kinds of people, and I have lived their lives. For this reason, in order to prepare for the making of a new film, it requires a tremendous effort to forget the people in the film that went before.”
― Akira Kurosawa, Something Like An Autobiography

“They lived their lives as if their sights were set on the clouds beyond the hill they were climbing.”
― Akira Kurosawa, Something Like an Autobiography

“There are sometimes such human beings among film critics—the things they say they see are so far off the beam that you would think they were possessed by some kind of demon. I suppose nothing can be done about critics, but we can’t have such people among film directors.”
― Akira Kurosawa, Something Like An Autobiography