I can't afford to hate anyone. I don't have that kind of time.
Interpretation
Hating others is a waste of time and energy that could be better spent on positive pursuits.
This quote by Akira Kurosawa highlights the importance of prioritizing our time and emotional energy. To hate someone is to devote precious time to negative feelings, which can be damaging to our mental health and personal growth. Instead, Kurosawa suggests that we should focus on more constructive activities that enrich our lives and relationships.
In practice
In a speech about personal growth, one might say, 'As Akira Kurosawa wisely noted, I can't afford to hate anyone. I don't have that kind of time.'
Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one... ...I had wanted to make The Idiot long before Rashomon. Since I was little I've liked Russian literature, but I find that I like Dostoevsky the best and had long thought that this book would make a wonderful film. He is still my favourite author, and he is the one - I still think - who writes most honestly about human existence.
For me, filmmaking combines everything. That's the reason I've made cinema my life's work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music come together. But a film is still a film.
A truly good movie is enjoyable too. Thereβs nothing complicated about it.
The role of the artist is to not look away.
but ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. People who delight in torturing defenseless children or tiny creatures are in reality insane. The terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public.
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.
The saints must be honored as friends of Christ and children and heirs of God. Let us carefully observe the manner of life of all the apostles, martyrs, ascetics, and just men who announced the coming of the Lord. And let us emulate their faith, charity, hope, zeal, life, patience under suffering, and perseverance unto death so that we may also share their crowns of glory.
I think you get into trouble as an author and a journalist when, rather than owning the gaps, you try to elide them.
The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.
To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.
It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't.
Our experience over the last 20 years has shown that indeed people must themselves become their own liberators. You cannot wait for somebody else to come and rescue you.
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