The scene where cops question Dr. Richard Kimble (Harrison Ford) was improvised. Harrison did not know what the questions were, he just answered them based on the knowledge that he had of the murder, ad-libbing all the way.

Dreams is a collection of fragments – they are not really stories, with a well defined beginning, middle and end. Since these are dreams, the great auteur that is Kurosawa gets free reins to display his creativity.

When Yasujirō Ozu tells a story about a town, he also shows you how the town looks in the morning, how the train looks passing through that town and how the empty road looks at night. It is this aspect that gives depth and poignancy to all his narratives.