I suppose all of my films have a common theme. If I think about it, though, the only theme I can think of is really a question: Why can’t people be happier together?
Interpretation
The quote reflects on the desire for people to find happiness in their relationships with each other.
In this quote, Akira Kurosawa expresses a deep philosophical inquiry regarding the nature of human relationships and happiness. He suggests that despite the variety of themes in his films, a central question prevails: why is it so challenging for people to coexist in a state of happiness? This introspection encourages viewers to consider the barriers and complexities that prevent joyful interactions among individuals.
In practice
This quote could be used in a speech about fostering positive relationships in communities.
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.
I can't afford to hate anyone. I don't have that kind of time.
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. There’s 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 truth is the light and the light is the truth.
To deprive a gregarious creature of companionship is to maim it, to outrage its nature. The prisoner and the cenobite are aware that the herd exists beyond their exile; they are an aspect of it. But when the herd no longer exists, there is, for the herd creature, no longer entity, a part of no whole; a freak without a place. If he cannot hold on to his reason, then he is lost indeed; most utterly, most fearfully lost, so that he becomes no more than the twitch in the limb of a corpse.
The world is full of judgment-days, and into every assembly that a man enters, in every action he attempts, he is gauged and stamped.
Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.
Bells call others, but themselves enter not into the Church.
Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can't reach.
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