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" Japanese feel an intimacy with the dead, at least for people up to my generation. "
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Feel
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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 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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" I never want to be the all-knowing god of the story, manipulating what's to happen or the action. "
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" I am hopeful that films can connect people who are in conflict in a separated world. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" I'm less interested in death itself than in people whose lives are touched by it. "
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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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" When I make films, I don't think of any other directors or their work in terms of the rhythm of the editing or the tenor of the performances. "
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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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" The vividness of children is easier to see when they're completely left to their own devices. "
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" I grew up without a father. "
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" 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. "
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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 am very happy that Japanese film can cross borders. "
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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 have been told that my films remind people of Ozu, I have never been too convinced. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" There was a time when I thought Kim Novak was the sexiest woman in the world. "
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" 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. "
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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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