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" When I was a child, I loved making stories, so I thought maybe I would be a novelist. "
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Thought
Child
Loved
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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. "
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Circle
Thinking
Time
" You only get back what you are prepared to put in. "
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Get
Back
Prepared
" 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. "
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Son
Looking Back
Father
" 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. "
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Child
Just
Dialogue
" If my films did better at the box office in Japan, it would be easier to get them made. "
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Made
Japan
Easier
" 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. "
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Like
Direction
Boy
" When you make a documentary, you have to adapt to what reality imposes upon you. "
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Adapt
Reality
Documentary
" When I have been told that my films remind people of Ozu, I have never been too convinced. "
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Remind
Been
Films
" I would say that 'After the Storm' is much more informed by my personal life than my other movies. "
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Life
Movies
Storm
" I'm so entranced by what unfolds in front of the camera. It seems wonderfully out of my control. "
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Control
Seems
Front
" When I am 60 or 70, I am sure I can still continue to make films on families. "
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Make
I Am
Continue
" Sometimes when you watch children, you feel that they show emotions that you, as an adult, can relate to. "
Hirokazu Kore-eda
You
Feel
Sometimes
" 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. "
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Loved
Mother
Movies
" Fast cutting, loud music, blood spewing everywhere, and gunshots permeating the scenes does not necessarily make for a shocking movie. "
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Blood
Fast
Loud
" 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. "
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Hope
Lose
Cinema
" 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. "
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Well
Done
Father
" 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. "
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Time
Father
Food
" The vividness of children is easier to see when they're completely left to their own devices. "
Hirokazu Kore-eda
See
Children
Left
" 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. "
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Television
Watches
Humor
" 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. "
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Work
Child
Family
" Hardly anyone says anything real in the courtroom. Almost everything is decided ahead of time, and the truth is found behind the scenes. "
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Truth Is
Truth
Time
" I'm less interested in death itself than in people whose lives are touched by it. "
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Less
People
Interested
" 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. "
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Family
Help
Live
" With 'Nobody Knows,' I consciously set out to make a fiction film, which is a different approach from 'Distance,' but I still applied a lot of the things I learned from making 'Distance': for example, how to use the camera in relation to the children and how to create the right atmosphere on set. "
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Camera
Create
Distance
" I don't really like something serious depicted in a serious way; that's not my style. "
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Something
Style
Way
" A lot of people, especially Japanese, come to the theater to have a good cry. "
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Japanese
People
Lot
" Privacy is not really a concept in Japan. "
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Privacy
Really
Japan
" Maybe family is an eternal subject for me. "
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Family
Subject
Me
" There's a difference between people being free and the atmosphere of 'freedom.' "
Hirokazu Kore-eda
People
Being
Difference
" 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. "
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Shoes
You
Food