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I'm a huge fan of Akira Kurosawa, a big Hitchcock fan. -- Jennifer Lynch
For many years, my favorite director has been the Japanese giant Akira Kurosawa. -- Henry Rollins
I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film. -- Ted Demme
I was in Japan, and my assistant director had worked with Kurosawa. I used quite of number of Kurosawa's crew. -- John Boorman
The term 'giant' is used too often to describe artists. But in the case of Akira Kurosawa, we have one of the rare instances where the term fits. -- Martin Scorsese
A lot of my stories are inspired by Japanese folklore or literature or movies: I've done stories based on Kabuki and Noh plays, and on Kurosawa's 'Yojimbo' movies. -- Stan Sakai
Being a kid growing up with Kurosawa films and watching Sergio Leone movies just made me love what it could do to you, and how it could influence you - make you dream. -- Antoine Fuqua
The movies that made me want to make movies were action movies, and thrillers, and Kurosawa films, you know, where you have an opportunity every day to shoot it in an unusual way. I was looking for something like that. -- Lawrence Kasdan
Kurosawa is the pictorial Shakespeare of our time. -- Steven Spielberg
I want to be able to make westerns like Akira Kurosawa makes westerns. -- Sam Peckinpah
Most directors have one masterpiece by which they are known. Kurosawa has at least eight or nine. -- Francis Ford Coppola
The expected vertical line of Ikiru's narrative breaks when Kurosawa does a flash-forward in the middle of the film. -- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I think Kurosawa was one of the first storytelling geniuses who began to change the narrative structure of films. -- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
In Kurosawa's films, the tragedy is that this strong man was crushed by corruption or mistrust at the end. -- Claire Denis
I've wanted to work with [Kairo aka Pulse director] Kiyoshi Kurosawa, but he has not been making horror movies recently. -- Roy Lee
Fellini, Kurosawa, and Bunuel move in the same field as Tarkovsky. Antonioni was on his way, but expired, suffocated by his own tediousness. -- Ingmar Bergman
South Africa had very poor repertory distribution. I didn't find out about Akira Kurosawa and Tarkovsky and Werner Herzog until I got to the U.K. -- Richard Stanley
Kurosawa was one of film's true greats... His ability to transform a vision into a powerful work of art is unparalleled. So it seemed appropriate to name the new digital studio for him. -- George Lucas
[Akiro] Kurosawa, no doubt, was a big influence. Movies sometimes more than directors have influenced me: The Grapes of Wrath, by John Ford, was an extraordinary discovery. Sergei Eisenstein, of course. Later on, [Ingmar] Bergman. -- Costa-Gavras
I'm not Akira Kurosawa. He used to write...He used to write a completely new spec script over a couple of nights. I'm not like that. It takes me a long time to put a film together that I want to make. -- Duncan Jones
You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws winds up having a huge effect on me. If only my parents had been taking me to Kurosawa films when I was eight, but no. -- Ann Patchett
You know the movie "Rashomon" from [Takeshi] Kurosawa, when all the people in the forest see something different? Each performance was like that. -- Marina Abramovic
The contemporary Japanese directors who are well-known in the West - say, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Takeshi Kitano, Naomi Kawase - are mostly unknown to Japanese, particularly of the younger generation. -- Hirokazu Koreeda
The great Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa said that to be an artist means never to avert your eyes. And that's the hardest thing, because we want to flinch. The artist must go into the white hot center of himself, and our impulse when we get there is to look away and avert our eyes. -- Robert Olen Butler
I was influenced by Ray Harryhausen and Lotte Reiniger, with her twitchy, cutout animation, which I happened to see at a very young age, but also by the Warner Bros. cartoons, 'Tom and Jerry,' and of course Disney. And also by Fellini's 'Giulietta of the Spirits' and Kurosawa's 'Ran.' And by other American illustrators and painters. -- Henry Selick
If you want to make films, you'll watch Kurosawa. If you want to play a violin, you listen to Seghetti. Same with somebody who has the ambition to play in the NBA. I watch a basketball game; I enjoy it. Somebody who really wants to learn to play is studying whatever is most magnificent that's going on out there. -- Robert Pinsky
Dolby stereo increases the possibility of emptiness in film sound at the same time that it enlarges the space that can be filled. It's this capacity for emptiness and not just fullness that offers possibilities yet to be explored. Kurosawa has magnificently exploited this dimension in Dreams: sometimes the sonic universe is reduced to a single point-the sound of the rain, an echo that disappears, a simple voice. -- Michel Chion

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