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" I'm so entranced by what unfolds in front of the camera. It seems wonderfully out of my control. "
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Control
Seems
Front
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" I watch 'Electronic Boy' faithfully every week - not because I like the show but because I'm interested in where the smartest T.V. producers and directors are going, what direction they are headed in. "
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" There's a difference between people being free and the atmosphere of 'freedom.' "
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" You only get back what you are prepared to put in. "
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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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" We learn many things from children, always. "
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" A lot of people, especially Japanese, come to the theater to have a good cry. "
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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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" I think a lot of Japanese morals are built around what the dead would think of us. "
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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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" 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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Director
" When you make a documentary, you have to adapt to what reality imposes upon you. "
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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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Family
" 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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" I am hopeful that films can connect people who are in conflict in a separated world. "
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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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Father
" When I have been told that my films remind people of Ozu, I have never been too convinced. "
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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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" 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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" I have never made a film to praise or to criticize something. That kind of filmmaking is nothing but propaganda. "
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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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" 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
" I am very happy that Japanese film can cross borders. "
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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 grew up without a father. "
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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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