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" I never want to be the all-knowing god of the story, manipulating what's to happen or the action. "
Hirokazu Kore-eda
God
Never
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" Japanese society doesn't have a god - no absolute presence. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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. "
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" The children in 'Nobody Knows' had a resonance with me. The children are projections of myself. "
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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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" Directing while overcoming differences of language and culture is a stimulating challenge. "
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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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" Sometimes when you watch children, you feel that they show emotions that you, as an adult, can relate to. "
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" I am hopeful that films can connect people who are in conflict in a separated world. "
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" 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. "
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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
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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 I choose child actors, I chose them for their personalities. And then I work with their own vocabulary, so I'm not imposing text or dialogue on them: I'm just receiving. "
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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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" 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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" The vividness of children is easier to see when they're completely left to their own devices. "
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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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Think
Past
Government
" 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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Wonderful
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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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" 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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" If my films did better at the box office in Japan, it would be easier to get them made. "
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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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" In terms of film festivals, Cannes is the greatest launch pad. "
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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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" There was a time when I thought Kim Novak was the sexiest woman in the world. "
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" I'm less interested in death itself than in people whose lives are touched by it. "
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" We learn many things from children, always. "
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" When you make a documentary, you have to adapt to what reality imposes upon you. "
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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. "
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