"You can shoot a film by each scene, with different lenses and different angles, and put it together..."

“You can shoot a film by each scene, with different lenses and different angles, and put it together in the cutting room. Or you do what I do, which is to only shoot exactly what I’m going to use. That keeps up the concentration of the actors. If you’re shooting all sorts of angles, they think ‘Well, this shot probably won’t be in the film.’ Whereas I say, ‘Everything we shoot is going to be in the film, so you better be ready, and be ready on the first take.’ Kurosawa solved the problem by h...