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.

I accept all awards. I like them.

I wouldn't presume to be God's point of view.

I think what happened there was just the budget would be too big to build these sets because nothing really exists here in New York of that period; you have to build it all.

Very often I've known people who wouldn't say a word to each other, but they'd go to see movies together and experience life that way.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

We’re face to face with images all the time in a way that we never have been before... Young people need to understand that not all images are there to be consumed like fast food and then forgotten – we need to educate them to understand the difference between moving images that engage their humanity and their intelligence, and moving images that are just selling them something.