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" Hardly anyone says anything real in the courtroom. Almost everything is decided ahead of time, and the truth is found behind the scenes. "
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Truth Is
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" When I am 60 or 70, I am sure I can still continue to make films on families. "
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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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" You only get back what you are prepared to put in. "
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" We learn many things from children, always. "
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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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" In terms of film festivals, Cannes is the greatest launch pad. "
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" 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. "
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" Japanese society doesn't have a god - no absolute presence. "
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" 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. "
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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 am very happy that Japanese film can cross borders. "
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" Privacy is not really a concept in Japan. "
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Privacy
Really
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" I never want to be the all-knowing god of the story, manipulating what's to happen or the action. "
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" Maybe family is an eternal subject for me. "
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Subject
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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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" 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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" I have never made a film to praise or to criticize something. That kind of filmmaking is nothing but propaganda. "
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Praise
Nothing
Kind
" I'm less interested in death itself than in people whose lives are touched by it. "
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People
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" There was a time when I thought Kim Novak was the sexiest woman in the world. "
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World
Thought
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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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" It is righteous to receive state subsidies to make films that criticise the state - I want Japanese people to accept such European values. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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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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She
Mother
" If my films did better at the box office in Japan, it would be easier to get them made. "
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Japan
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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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