Kurosawa felt that sound cinema multiplies the complexity of a film: "Cinematic sound is never merely accompaniment, never merely what the sound machine caught while you took the scene.
Kurosava je smatrao da zvučna kinematografija potencira kompleksnost filma: "Filmski zvuk nikad nije tek pratnja, nikad tek ono što je zvučni stroj uhvatio dok ste snimali scenu.