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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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" 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. "

" Hardly anyone says anything real in the courtroom. Almost everything is decided ahead of time, and the truth is found behind the scenes. "

" The children in 'Nobody Knows' had a resonance with me. The children are projections of myself. "

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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. "

" If my films did better at the box office in Japan, it would be easier to get them made. "

" 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. "

" Fast cutting, loud music, blood spewing everywhere, and gunshots permeating the scenes does not necessarily make for a shocking movie. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I would say that 'After the Storm' is much more informed by my personal life than my other movies. "

" When I was a child, I loved making stories, so I thought maybe I would be a novelist. "

" We learn many things from children, always. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "