Most directors have one masterpiece by which they are known. Kurosawa has at least eight or nine.

It was the man's dream, and his inspiring attempt to make them come true that remain important.

A number of images put together a certain way become something quite above and beyond what any of them are individually.

Anyone who's made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. You never stop learning about film.

Whom God wishes to destroy, He first makes successful in show business.

A director is the ringmaster of a circus that's inventing itself.

We had access to too much equipment, too much money, and little by little we went insane.

I was the kind of kid that had some talents or ability, but it never came out in school.

Movies are the art form most like man's imagination.

It takes no imagination to live within your means.

The things you get fired for when you’re young are the same things that you get lifetime achievement awards for when you’re old.

There can't be art without risk. It's like saying No Sex, and then expecting there to be children.

Time is the lens through which dreams are captured.

I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can.

Usually, the stuff that's your best idea or work is going to be attacked the most.

Death is what makes life an event.

Drinking wine is just a part of life, like eating food.

Work on nothing less than epic scale

I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.