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

Hirokazu Kore-eda

Job

Honorable

Director

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 am very happy that Japanese film can cross borders. "

Hirokazu Kore-eda

I Am

Happy

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

" We learn many things from children, always. "

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

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

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

" I grew up without a father. "

Hirokazu Kore-eda

Father

Grew

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

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

" Yes, a family is interesting. You can get a lot of drama in the conflicts there. It's like the sea. It seems calm, but inside there is conflict. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Maybe family is an eternal subject for me. "

Hirokazu Kore-eda

Family

Subject

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

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

" We can see loss as something missing, but that missing space can be filled with something else, and that creates healing. "

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" Privacy is not really a concept in Japan. "

" 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 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. "