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  • In the eighties, there was a huge shift in the humor of Japanese television. Up until then, the humor was garnered by people who said humorous things, but in the '80s, it was garnered by people who were being laughed at while the audience watches and watches.
    - Hirokazu Kore-eda
  • It is righteous to receive state subsidies to make films that criticise the state - I want Japanese people to accept such European values.
    - Hirokazu Kore-eda
  • A lot of people, especially Japanese, come to the theater to have a good cry.
    - Hirokazu Kore-eda
  • I'm less interested in death itself than in people whose lives are touched by it.
    - Hirokazu Kore-eda
  • 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
  • When I have been told that my films remind people of Ozu, I have never been too convinced.
    - Hirokazu Kore-eda
  • There's a difference between people being free and the atmosphere of 'freedom.'
    - Hirokazu Kore-eda
  • Japanese feel an intimacy with the dead, at least for people up to my generation.
    - Hirokazu Kore-eda