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" 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

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

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

" 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. "

" We learn many things from children, always. "

" When I watch an actress say a line, I watch how they deliver the lines with gestures. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I grew up without a father. "

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Father

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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. "

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

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Had

" I would say that 'After the Storm' is much more informed by my personal life than my other movies. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Privacy is not really a concept in Japan. "

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

" Sometimes when you watch children, you feel that they show emotions that you, as an adult, can relate to. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "