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" I think a lot of Japanese morals are built around what the dead would think of us. "
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Dead
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" When I watch an actress say a line, I watch how they deliver the lines with gestures. "
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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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" I would say that 'After the Storm' is much more informed by my personal life than my other movies. "
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" We can see loss as something missing, but that missing space can be filled with something else, and that creates healing. "
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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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" 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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" I am very happy that Japanese film can cross borders. "
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" Japanese feel an intimacy with the dead, at least for people up to my generation. "
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" We learn many things from children, always. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" When I was a child, I loved making stories, so I thought maybe I would be a novelist. "
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" A lot of people, especially Japanese, come to the theater to have a good cry. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" Privacy is not really a concept in Japan. "
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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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" 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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