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

Hirokazu Kore-eda

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

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

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" 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. "

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" When I make films, I don't think of any other directors or their work in terms of the rhythm of the editing or the tenor of the performances. "

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

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" You only get back what you are prepared to put in. "

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" When I have been told that my films remind people of Ozu, I have never been too convinced. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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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. "

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" 'Like Father, Like Son' gave me the opportunity to show when it is not good with a father. "

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" When you make a documentary, you have to adapt to what reality imposes upon you. "

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" Maybe family is an eternal subject for me. "

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" I grew up without a father. "

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

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

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" There was a time when I thought Kim Novak was the sexiest woman in the world. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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" 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. "

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" When making documentaries, the most important thing I learned was to listen, observe gestures and facial expressions. "

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

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" 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. "

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" My grandfather had Alzheimer's. He would eat everything and anything that was around; then he wouldn't remember that he ate it and would demand to be fed again. "

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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. "

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