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" 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. "

Hirokazu Kore-eda

Son

Looking Back

Father

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I Am

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

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Hirokazu Kore-eda

Direction

Boy

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

" The Japanese don't have a specific religion, but a spirituality. A cap, shoes, and a table have a spirituality. When you eat an apple, you don't say you eat it: you say, 'I am receiving it.' Kind of like you are thanking the food. "

" There's a difference between people being free and the atmosphere of 'freedom.' "

" With 'Nobody Knows,' I consciously set out to make a fiction film, which is a different approach from 'Distance,' but I still applied a lot of the things I learned from making 'Distance': for example, how to use the camera in relation to the children and how to create the right atmosphere on set. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We used to have prawn tempura: that was my mother's favourite dish. But she had to go out to work instead of my father, so she couldn't find the time to cook nice meals. So we ate more modern food: a lot of frozen and instant food. But I never complained about it to my mother. "

" When I watch an actress say a line, I watch how they deliver the lines with gestures. "

" Maybe family is an eternal subject for me. "

Hirokazu Kore-eda

Family

Subject

" I grew up without a father. "

Hirokazu Kore-eda

Father

Grew

" My father did not have a lot of security in his life. He did odd jobs. He had a real struggle to make money. He lost a lot of time in his 20s, after the war, because he was sent to a forced-labour camp in Siberia. "

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

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

" My mother loved films! She adored Ingrid Bergman, Joan Fontaine, Vivien Leigh. We couldn't afford to go together to the cinema, but she was always watching their movies on TV. "

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

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

" Tokyo is wonderful for distribution of international films, a lot of Iranian films, Taiwanese films. But most of the art films are from Europe and Asia. "

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