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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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" 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. "

Hirokazu Kore-eda

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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. "

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

" There's a difference between people being free and the atmosphere of 'freedom.' "

" 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. "

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

Hirokazu Kore-eda

I Am

Happy

" You only get back what you are prepared to put in. "

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

" I am hopeful that films can connect people who are in conflict in a separated world. "

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

" When making documentaries, the most important thing I learned was to listen, observe gestures and facial expressions. "

" Japanese feel an intimacy with the dead, at least for people up to my generation. "

" When I watch an actress say a line, I watch how they deliver the lines with gestures. "

" 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. "

" It is righteous to receive state subsidies to make films that criticise the state - I want Japanese people to accept such European values. "

" 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. "

" The Japanese don't have a specific religion, but a spirituality. A cap, shoes, and a table have a spirituality. When you eat an apple, you don't say you eat it: you say, 'I am receiving it.' Kind of like you are thanking the food. "

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

" When I am 60 or 70, I am sure I can still continue to make films on families. "

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

" 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. "

" The vividness of children is easier to see when they're completely left to their own devices. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I grew up without a father. "

Hirokazu Kore-eda

Father

Grew

" A lot of people, especially Japanese, come to the theater to have a good cry. "

" 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. "