Hirokazu Koreeda Quotes

#1. Films need people more than stories.
Landscapes also harbor emotions.
Music can blow like the wind through a scene.

Hirokazu Koreeda

#2. I did want to become a novelist, but the program at Waseda was pretty intense in terms of language requirements - two hours of English and four hours of Chinese. I thought, what do I need this for? So I stopped going to class.

Hirokazu Koreeda

#3. 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 Koreeda

#4. I'm born and raised in Houston, Texas, but Wisconsin is always going to be a home for me, and I'll always be back.

Donald Driver

#5. I am sure my love's more ponderous than my tongue.

William Shakespeare

#6. If a movie is nominated for, say, an Academy award, that movie will instantly become popular in Japan. There's always been a bit of a complex the Japanese have about being taken seriously in the West.

Hirokazu Koreeda

#7. You can always affect things - so can you change it in a way that will make you as happy with it in the future as you were in the past? Maybe it won't be the same, but it might be something else you also like.

Jamie Zawinski

#8. In order to avoid sentimentality and to be able to write the screenplay with the kind of humor and irony necessary to keep the story moving, I needed to distance myself as much as I could from the characters, to try to get to a point where I could view them objectively.

Hirokazu Koreeda

#9. As far as documentaries go, I believe unreservedly that they serve an important function in our culture. I'd love to be able to make both documentaries and feature films simultaneously, but so far that hasn't happened.

Hirokazu Koreeda

#10. Yesterday I sat in a field of violets for a long time perfectly still, until I really sank into it - into the rhythm of the place, I mean - then when I got up to go home I couldn't walk quickly or evenly because I was still in time with the field.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#11. I'm a big people pleaser; I had a very awkward adolescence. Part of me is still that person who wants everyone to like me.

Alissa Nutting

#12. And to not blink against the greatest player in the world, I think she's going - she said it really nicely. She [Serena Williams] said now, I can call myself a grand slam champion, and that sounds really, really nice. So I'm very happy for her.

Howard Bryant

#13. Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.

N. Murray Edwards