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Hirokazu Kore-eda Quotes

When I was 27, I won an honorable mention in a scriptwriting contest and got a television job as an assistant director.

Hirokazu Kore-eda

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: japanese
Birth: June 6, 1962

Topics

Job Television Director Honorable

My father got a trade union scholarship to Oxford; he lived and breathed politics; he was always watching current-affairs programmes. But I have a five-year-old child's attitude towards the news. Mainly, that it absolutely turns me off.

Jez Butterworth

Father Attitude Politics Child Me

It's incredibly important to me that you remember a song right after the first or second time you hear it. That something sticks to you, something that makes you feel, 'I need to hear that song again.' That's fundamental. Something you want again. And again.

Time Me Song Feel Remember You

I don't pass judgment on anybody, but personally, I prefer a more natural look. I think it's helping my longevity in my career because I'm playing my age.

Andie MacDowell

Age Think Look Career Longevity

If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than monarchies have done it must and will inevitably give place to something better.

Anna Julia Cooper

Women Men People Better Place Done

I grew up pretty peacefully, in that Eastern way. You easily solve problems, believe in harmony. Reduce conflicts, take orders until one day you give orders.

Day Believe Problems You Harmony Up

Trust is central to an economy that works.

Trust Economy Central Works

Being told about the effects of climate change is an appeal to our reason and to our desire to bring about change. But to see that Africans are the hardest hit by climate change, even though they generate almost no greenhouse gas, is a glaring injustice, which also triggers anger and outrage over those who seek to ignore it.

Change Anger Ignore Injustice Desire

I'm no Ripley. I had doubts that I could play her as strongly as she had to be played, but I must say that it was fun exploring that side of myself. Women don't get to do that very often.

Sigourney Weaver

Women Myself Fun Play Say She

I used to get nervous just going to the stage door, seeing people waiting to talk to me. I was afraid of being caught out in some way or not being right.

Waiting People Me Door Seeing Way

When sighted people cover their eyes or find themselves in a dark place, this is something that's very terrifying for us. And so in general, we assume that this is what blindness means. But of course, it isn't. For people who were born blind or who go blind at a very young age, that's not at all what blindness means.

Rosemary Mahoney

Age Eyes People Blind Dark Born

Where there are difficulties, there will always be opportunities.

Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber

Opportunities Will Difficulties Where

My birth was managed so rottenly that my mother had eventually to have a hysterectomy, after which she was ill off & on till she dies for obscure reasons when I was just 7.

Mother Birth She Obscure Off Just

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