I was in Japan, and my assistant director had worked with Kurosawa. I used quite of number of Kurosawa's crew.
Any teacher in the arts and sciences has to maintain a sense of childlikeness to be truly inventive.
There's this guy: his name, Sedik Ali. He's like the African Kurosawa. You know how Kurosawa does stuff from feudal Japan? This guy does the feudal system of Africa.
I may safely predict that the education of the future will be inventive-minded. It will believe so profoundly in the high value of the inventive or creative spirit that it will set itself to develop that spirit by all means within its power.
Kurosawa is the sensei, the Shakespeare, of filmmaking.
Akira Kurosawa is the pictorial William Shakespeare of our time.
For many years, my favorite director has been the Japanese giant Akira Kurosawa.
Most directors have one masterpiece by which they are known. Kurosawa has at least eight or nine.
In Kurosawa's films, the tragedy is that this strong man was crushed by corruption or mistrust at the end.
I think Kurosawa was one of the first storytelling geniuses who began to change the narrative structure of films.
I admire Akira Kurosawa. I have a deep admiration for him and I would love to make films like that.
The expected vertical line of Ikiru's narrative breaks when Kurosawa does a flash-forward in the middle of the film.
Kurosawa was one of film's true greats. His ability to transform a vision into a powerful work of art is unparalleled.
Now I want to make it plain that 'The Virgin Spring' must be regarded as an aberration. It's touristic, a lousy imitation of Kurosawa.
You know the movie "Rashomon" from [Takeshi] Kurosawa, when all the people in the forest see something different? Each performance was like that.
I've wanted to work with [Kairo aka Pulse director] Kiyoshi Kurosawa, but he has not been making horror movies recently.