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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. "

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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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Lose

Cinema

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 am very happy that Japanese film can cross borders. "

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I Am

Happy

" I grew up without a father. "

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Father

Grew

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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Myself

Had

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When making documentaries, the most important thing I learned was to listen, observe gestures and facial expressions. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We can see loss as something missing, but that missing space can be filled with something else, and that creates healing. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Maybe family is an eternal subject for me. "

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Family

Subject

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 'Like Father, Like Son' gave me the opportunity to show when it is not good with a father. "

Hirokazu Kore-eda

Show

Opportunity

" 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. "

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

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