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All Quotes by author - Hirokazu Kore-eda

" A film is not a vehicle to accuse, or to relay a specific message. If we reduce a film to this, we lose all hope for cinema to ignite a richer conversation. "

" All my mother ever wanted to talk about was what she hated about my father and the times he cheated on her when he was younger. It really irritated me, and I told them they had to sort things out between themselves. Looking back on that, I see that it was really cold of me as a son. "

" A lot of people, especially Japanese, come to the theater to have a good cry. "

" As a son and as a father, there are still various things that I haven't done as well as I should have - that's my dilemma and regret. "

" As the Japanese family gets more and more atomized, grandparents don't live with the nuclear family, so parents of children can't consult with their own parents about how to raise their children and rely on that to help raise them. "

" Directing while overcoming differences of language and culture is a stimulating challenge. "

" Fast cutting, loud music, blood spewing everywhere, and gunshots permeating the scenes does not necessarily make for a shocking movie. "

" Hardly anyone says anything real in the courtroom. Almost everything is decided ahead of time, and the truth is found behind the scenes. "

" I am hopeful that films can connect people who are in conflict in a separated world. "

" I am very happy that Japanese film can cross borders. "

" I believe that any auteur categorised in terms of an -ist or an -ism wouldn't be able to capture the complex essence of human nature. "

" I don't really like something serious depicted in a serious way; that's not my style. "

" If my films did better at the box office in Japan, it would be easier to get them made. "

" I grew up without a father. "

" I have been told that... time doesn't flow in a straight line in my films. It goes round in a circle. Sometimes people comment that the films remind them of Ozu. Maybe that's right. But in Japan, nobody comments on how time passes in my films. So perhaps that is a different way of thinking. "

" I have never made a film to praise or to criticize something. That kind of filmmaking is nothing but propaganda. "

" I'm less interested in death itself than in people whose lives are touched by it. "

" I'm so entranced by what unfolds in front of the camera. It seems wonderfully out of my control. "

" I never want to be the all-knowing god of the story, manipulating what's to happen or the action. "

" In terms of film festivals, Cannes is the greatest launch pad. "

" In the eighties, there was a huge shift in the humor of Japanese television. Up until then, the humor was garnered by people who said humorous things, but in the '80s, it was garnered by people who were being laughed at while the audience watches and watches. "

" I particularly relate to the films of Mikio Naruse and Shinichi Kamoshita, a person whose work I watched very much as a child, a director of family dramas for television. "

" I think a lot of Japanese morals are built around what the dead would think of us. "

" It is righteous to receive state subsidies to make films that criticise the state - I want Japanese people to accept such European values. "

" It's definitely good to have a hit from time to time, though not too often. If you have a few hits in a row, people start to think every film you make will be a hit, which is a big mistake. "

" I've been a fan of Yoshida Akimi's manga for a long time; she's one of a few women's manga writers that I always read. "

" I wanted to make 'Nobody Knows,' a kind of summation of the experiences I gained from making my first three films, the good ones as well as the bad ones. "

" I watch 'Electronic Boy' faithfully every week - not because I like the show but because I'm interested in where the smartest T.V. producers and directors are going, what direction they are headed in. "

" I would say that 'After the Storm' is much more informed by my personal life than my other movies. "

" Japanese feel an intimacy with the dead, at least for people up to my generation. "

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