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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Hirokazu Kore-eda

Tokyo

Wonderful

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" Sometimes when you watch children, you feel that they show emotions that you, as an adult, can relate to. "

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

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

" Reflecting on the past, where the film industry became united with 'national interest' and 'national policy,' I tend to think that keeping a clear distance from government authority is the right thing to do. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Privacy is not really a concept in Japan. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" When I was a child, I loved making stories, so I thought maybe I would be a novelist. "

" Japanese society doesn't have a god - no absolute presence. "

" We learn many things from children, always. "

" When I was 27, I won an honorable mention in a scriptwriting contest and got a television job as an assistant director. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I grew up without a father. "

Hirokazu Kore-eda

Father

Grew

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

" My mother was really against it when I said I wanted to make films. She said that I should be a civil servant because that was safe, and it had security. But my mother was always very proud of my movies and would give videocassettes of them to all the neighbours. "

" My mother used to work in a bank in Tokyo. It was a busy district, and after work, she used to go and watch films. "