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Hirokazu Kore-eda
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Japanese Director
Born: Jun 6, 1962
Children Father Films Japanese People Time
Related authors: Alfred Hitchcock David Lynch George Lucas Martin Scorsese Steven Spielberg Tim Burton Woody Allen
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
Time People Sometimes Circle Thinking Films Way Remind Nobody Perhaps How Passes Line Been Time Passes Comment Comments Goes Maybe Different Japan Straight Them Straight Line Different Way Round Right Flow
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. Hirokazu Kore-eda
Family You Conflict Calm Drama Inside Seems Like Lot Yes Get Conflicts Interesting Sea
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. Hirokazu Kore-eda
Mother Films Neighbours Security Would Civil Civil Servant Give Had Safe She Make Because Said Always Proud Very Wanted Against Movies Them Really Should Servant
'Like Father, Like Son' gave me the opportunity to show when it is not good with a father. Hirokazu Kore-eda
Good Me Son Opportunity Father Gave Like Show
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 Parents Own Live About More More And More Rely Consult How Gets Children Japanese Them Grandparents Help Nuclear Raise
When making documentaries, the most important thing I learned was to listen, observe gestures and facial expressions. Hirokazu Kore-eda
Important Facial Observe Most Documentaries Most Important Thing Learned Making Important Thing Gestures Listen The Most Important Expressions Thing
There's a difference between people being free and the atmosphere of 'freedom.' Hirokazu Kore-eda
Freedom People Free Atmosphere Between Difference Being
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. Hirokazu Kore-eda
Life War Time Struggle Money Father Lost Jobs Security Had He Make Because Real Odd Odd Jobs His Camp Lot Did After Sent Siberia
The children in 'Nobody Knows' had a resonance with me. The children are projections of myself. Hirokazu Kore-eda
Myself Me Resonance Had Nobody Knows Children
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
Work Own Vocabulary Dialogue Imposing Text Child Child Actors Just Personalities Them Then Choose Chose Actor Receiving
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. Hirokazu Kore-eda
Art Wonderful Films Distribution Taiwanese Most Iranian Lot Asia Tokyo Europe International
It is righteous to receive state subsidies to make films that criticise the state - I want Japanese people to accept such European values. Hirokazu Kore-eda
People Values Films State Righteous Criticise Make Accept Subsidies Want Japanese Japanese People European Receive
If my films did better at the box office in Japan, it would be easier to get them made. Hirokazu Kore-eda
Better Made Films Easier Would Would-Be Box Box Office Office Get Did Japan Them
The vividness of children is easier to see when they're completely left to their own devices. Hirokazu Kore-eda
Own Easier See Devices Left Children
I'm so entranced by what unfolds in front of the camera. It seems wonderfully out of my control. Hirokazu Kore-eda
Control Out Seems Entranced Camera Wonderfully Front Unfolds
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. Hirokazu Kore-eda
Nature Human Nature Believe Complex Able Terms Any Essence Human Capture
My mother used to work in a bank in Tokyo. It was a busy district, and after work, she used to go and watch films. Hirokazu Kore-eda
Work Mother Busy Films District She Go Bank After Used Tokyo Watch
When I have been told that my films remind people of Ozu, I have never been too convinced. Hirokazu Kore-eda
People Films Too Never Remind Been Convinced
I am very happy that Japanese film can cross borders. Hirokazu Kore-eda
Happy Borders Cross Am Very Japanese Film
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
Food Religion You Spirituality Shoes Say Kind Table Eat Like Am Thanking Cap Japanese Specific Apple Receiving
My grandfather had Alzheimer's. He would eat everything and anything that was around; then he wouldn't remember that he ate it and would demand to be fed again. Hirokazu Kore-eda
Remember Everything Ate Would Eat Fed Had He Demand Around Alzheimer Anything Again Grandfather Then
Japanese feel an intimacy with the dead, at least for people up to my generation. Hirokazu Kore-eda
Generation People Intimacy My Generation Feel Dead Least Up Japanese
When I was a child, I loved making stories, so I thought maybe I would be a novelist. Hirokazu Kore-eda
Thought Would Would-Be Making Child Maybe Stories Loved Novelist
I think a lot of Japanese morals are built around what the dead would think of us. Hirokazu Kore-eda
Think Would Morals Dead Around Built Lot Japanese Us
Maybe family is an eternal subject for me. Hirokazu Kore-eda
Family Me Subject Maybe Eternal
We learn many things from children, always. Hirokazu Kore-eda
Learn Always Children Many Things
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