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" We learn many things from children, always. "
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Children
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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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" Maybe family is an eternal subject for me. "
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" Japanese society doesn't have a god - no absolute presence. "
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" Fast cutting, loud music, blood spewing everywhere, and gunshots permeating the scenes does not necessarily make for a shocking movie. "
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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 never want to be the all-knowing god of the story, manipulating what's to happen or the action. "
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" The children in 'Nobody Knows' had a resonance with me. The children are projections of myself. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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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 think a lot of Japanese morals are built around what the dead would think of us. "
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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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" When I am 60 or 70, I am sure I can still continue to make films on families. "
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" I'm less interested in death itself than in people whose lives are touched by it. "
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" 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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" 'Like Father, Like Son' gave me the opportunity to show when it is not good with 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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" 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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" 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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