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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. "

Hirokazu Kore-eda

War

Father

Life

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" I think a lot of Japanese morals are built around what the dead would think of us. "

" 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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Boy

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" When I have been told that my films remind people of Ozu, I have never been too convinced. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Maybe family is an eternal subject for me. "

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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. "

" There was a time when I thought Kim Novak was the sexiest woman in the world. "

" 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. "