Hirokazu Quotes

#1. The truth isn't just what you see with your eyes. Not just what you see ...

Kaori Yuki

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

Hirokazu Koreeda

#3. The BBC did a survey of the top 50 things to do before we die. Not while we're still alive, before we die.

Bill Bailey

#4. Some of the most radiant Christians I have ever met were "wheelchair" saints. May God give you grace to "triumph in affliction.

Billy Graham

#5. What was Richard? He was a revenger, in what was probably intended to be a comedy.

Martin Amis

#6. To give good hugs you have to have some soft places.
- Jeremy Richards

Julius Lester

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. Well, Tommy Lee Jones is a little bit more intimidating. He's definitely a cowboy. He's from Texas.

Christina Milian

#10. There comes a moment in every person's life when they realise they adore me.

Salvador Dali

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. We aren't leveraging this great economic engine, the strongest economy in the world. And yet we have this totally weak response. We import $500 billion a year more in products than we export.

Jennifer Granholm

#15. I try to physically and mentally immerse myself in whatever it is I am doing. That is good for me as an artist. I am always looking for that part that I have never done before, which makes it all the more difficult, because people want to hire you for what they've already seen you do.

William Earl Brown