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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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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I have to believe there's redemption in the darkest of circumstances; otherwise it's too bleak for me.
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I don't feel embarrassed by any of the music that I like. I think it's all genuinely clever, good music.
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'Star Wars' or 'The Lord of the Rings' deal with great big Joseph Campbell-style myths, good and evil.
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I've talked to people who say that their music and their creative work is a much needed and appreciated escape, where they don't have to think about the state of the world; they're not even thinking about themselves so much. They're not trying to express their own experiences of that day or relationship strife or anything.
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My son John was just under a year old when I collapsed with a life-threatening kidney disease. The shame and guilt resulting from my unplanned pregnancy had continued to fester to the point that my toxic feelings literally poisoned my body.
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'Nevermind' by Nirvana. That was a big one for me.
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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.
