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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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" Reflecting on the past, where the film industry became united with 'national interest' and 'national policy,' I tend to think that keeping a clear distance from government authority is the right thing to do. "

Hirokazu Kore-eda

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Directing while overcoming differences of language and culture is a stimulating challenge. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" I don't really like something serious depicted in a serious way; that's not my style. "

" Privacy is not really a concept in Japan. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Maybe family is an eternal subject for me. "

Hirokazu Kore-eda

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I grew up without a father. "

Hirokazu Kore-eda

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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. "