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" The children in 'Nobody Knows' had a resonance with me. The children are projections of myself. "
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Me
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" I grew up without a father. "
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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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" When making documentaries, the most important thing I learned was to listen, observe gestures and facial expressions. "
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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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" When I watch an actress say a line, I watch how they deliver the lines with gestures. "
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" In terms of film festivals, Cannes is the greatest launch pad. "
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" I am very happy that Japanese film can cross borders. "
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" 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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" 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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" I would say that 'After the Storm' is much more informed by my personal life than my other movies. "
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" We learn many things from children, always. "
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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. "
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" You only get back what you are prepared to put in. "
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" If my films did better at the box office in Japan, it would be easier to get them made. "
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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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" 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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" Sometimes when you watch children, you feel that they show emotions that you, as an adult, can relate to. "
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" We can see loss as something missing, but that missing space can be filled with something else, and that creates healing. "
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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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" There was a time when I thought Kim Novak was the sexiest woman in the world. "
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" Privacy is not really a concept in Japan. "
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" When I was a child, I loved making stories, so I thought maybe I would be a novelist. "
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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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