Hirokazu Kore-eda Quotes

The contemporary Japanese directors who are well-known in the West - say, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Takeshi Kitano, Naomi Kawase - are mostly unknown to Japanese, particularly of the younger generation.

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• I don't like to read reviews. Even the good ones you start to analyze: 'Oh, did I do that? I have to make sure I do that again.'

  

  Faith Prince
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• That's the problem today: Who is the creator?

  

  Dan DeCarlo
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• The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.

  

  Sachin Bansal
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• Fiction is a particular kind of rhetoric, a way of thinking that I think can be useful in your life. It asks you to image the world through someone else's eyes, and it allows you to try to empathize with situations that you haven't actually experienced.

  

  Dan Chaon
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• Sharon Osbourne is such a blast and she's so, so bright.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
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• Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Want
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• I've always known that life is better when you share it. I now realize it gets even sweeter when you expand the circle.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Always
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• In 1982, when Alexander Haig and [Ariel] Sharon put this plan to invade the south of Lebanon and Beirut, they imagined that in two or three or five days, they can demolish the PLO and destroy its infrastructure. What happened? The longest Arab - Israeli confrontation.

  

  Yasser Arafat

• All knowledge is local, all truth is partial. No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is part of the whole knowledge. Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Truth
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• And so in my mind's eye these coastal forms merge and blend in a shifting, kaleidoscopic pattern in which there is no finality, no ultimate and fixed reality - earth becoming fluid as the sea itself.

  

  Rachel Carson
  • Mind
  • Reality
  • Earth

• I hope to encourage more children to discover and love reading, but I want to focus particularly on the appreciation of picture books…. Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. The best ones leave a tantalising gap between the pictures and the words, a gap that is filled by the reader's imagination, adding so much to the excitement of reading a book.

  

  Anthony Browne
  • Children
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• I'll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.

  

  Bela Lugosi
  • Important
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• Generally it's not a good idea to wear Banana Republic - type khaki journalist clothes in a war zone. You might look too much like something that's supposed to be shot, such as a journalist.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• True religion is when you serve God to get nothing else but more of God. Many people use religion as a way of getting something else from God they want-blessings, rewards, even escape from judgement. This is wearisome to us, and to God. But when God is His own reward, Christianity becomes thrilling. Sacrifice becomes joy.

  

  J. D. Greear
  • People
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• You look so polished from your hair down to your toes, but still your finger's gonna pick your nose.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Hair
  • Nose
  • Toes

• I want to focus on each scene. I'm a real perfectionist, and I don't want to feel like I didn't consider every possible variation of a scene. I come from a theater background, so I'm used to a lot of repetition, and I'm used to really attacking something over and over and over again.

  

  Michael Shannon
  • Real
  • Focus
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• They say in that book (Keneally's Schindler's List) that I gave the Jews the food in their mouths. I never had time to find out who was sick and who had to be fed (by hand). I am no good as a nurse, I tell you frankly. I have no talent for nursing . . . I bought the food for everyone.

  

  Emilie Schindler
  • Book
  • Food
  • Talent

• I love talking about food, and bringing people together to enjoy it.

  

  Noelle Scaggs
  • Food
  • Enjoy
  • Talking

• I can make fried tofu, boiled tofu, stuffed tofu. Cutlets and other fancy stuff, that's for other directors.

  

  Yasujirō Ozu
  • Directors
  • Fancy
  • Tofu

• The contemporary Japanese directors who are well-known in the West - say, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Takeshi Kitano, Naomi Kawase - are mostly unknown to Japanese, particularly of the younger generation.

  

  Hirokazu Kore-eda
  • Directors
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  • Contemporary