Hirokazu Kore-eda Quotes
I don't believe in making movies to cater to a foreign audience. You never know what the reaction is going to be anyhow. At the time I made Maborosi, the Japanese movies getting any foreign attention were all period dramas and seemed to be about some representative element of Japanese life, and my movie was contemporary movie about one specific woman trying to understand her husband's suicide.
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I don't think Adam Sandler or Will Ferrell fear competition from me in their arena.
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
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I am very concerned about nutrition and always try to be careful about what I eat.
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The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.
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Nearly all edible seaweeds - or 'sea vegetables,' as they ought technically to be called - belong to one of three broad groups: green, red and brown algae.
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Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
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I'm the youngest of five – three girls and two boys. There was one record player for the seven of us. It was good for me, because I got to hear everyone else's music.
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Essentially what photography is is life lit up.
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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
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What I love about jazz is that it's full of legends, full of myths. It's an oral history because it started in New Orleans and Kansas City, under the radar.
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I didn't want to be an accountant; I found myself being a banker, which was a bit different. I went to university, and I was going to do a Ph.D. in the States, but I didn't get the funding for it, so I had two years where I had a bit of a wobble and didn't really know what I wanted to do, and I ended up working as a banker.
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High school golf, college golf and the decade that followed all come back to me now as one big raucous, goofy gangsome.
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I believe that God made this wonderful universe and all that exists.
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Sometimes I read a really good script, and I just know that it's not a good fit.
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I played my first match aged six. Neither my opponent nor I knew how to score, so our parents had to help us out from the sidelines.
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The films that I do are deep, introspective, brooding roles that you're in this heavy headspace all the time.
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The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
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Tourists as well as natives want to see cultural achievements - whether it's the Banaue Terraces, the old churches or museums.
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I think auditions are set up for failure because they're not really the set experience. There's no time to develop the character. You're just looking at someone... if someone's really good in an audition, sometimes they're not good in the film. It's something you learn when you're doing short films. It's the same way that some people do well at taking tests and some people don't. But when you're on a long-term filmmaking process it's a completely different feeling.
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I believe in the balance between dreaming and building.
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While waiting for a Moses to lead us into the promised land, we have forgotten how to walk.
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But here too it should be noted that the President's approach was to first ask the repressive and brutal Taliban to surrender Osama bin Laden to us, and only after that government refused to do that did we invade.
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I don't believe in making movies to cater to a foreign audience. You never know what the reaction is going to be anyhow. At the time I made Maborosi, the Japanese movies getting any foreign attention were all period dramas and seemed to be about some representative element of Japanese life, and my movie was contemporary movie about one specific woman trying to understand her husband's suicide.
