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Hirokazu Kore-eda Quotes

Japanese - Director | June 6, 1962 -

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

Hirokazu Kore-eda

Challenge Culture Overcoming Language

I have never made a film to praise or to criticize something. That kind of filmmaking is nothing but propaganda.

Hirokazu Kore-eda

Filmmaking Kind Nothing Never Praise

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

Hirokazu Kore-eda

Think Morals Dead Us Japanese Would

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 Thinking Circle Nobody

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.

Hirokazu Kore-eda

Hope Lose Conversation Cinema Film

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 Sea Conflict Calm Interesting

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

Hirokazu Kore-eda

Children Feel You Emotions Sometimes

My mother loved films! She adored Ingrid Bergman, Joan Fontaine, Vivien Leigh. We couldn't afford to go together to the cinema, but she was always watching their movies on TV.

Hirokazu Kore-eda

Mother Together Loved Cinema Movies

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 Proud Security Said Movies

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 Father Time Money Struggle War

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.

Hirokazu Kore-eda

Work Father Mother Time Food Find

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

Hirokazu Kore-eda

I Am People Conflict World Connect

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