Quotes from Hirokazu Kore-eda

There's a difference between people being free and the atmosphere of 'freedom.'

When you make a documentary, you have to adapt to what reality imposes upon you.

I particularly relate to the films of Mikio Naruse and Shinichi Kamoshita, a person whose work I watched very much as a child, a director of family dramas for television.

Maybe family is an eternal subject for me.