"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."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Hirokazu Koreeda

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“Don't put needless expense into painting a head! Don't try to match tints! Rose and pearly colours blend into each other so that no one can unite them if painted separately. Keep the impression of your subject as one thing!”

Source : William Morris Hunt (1976). “William Morris Hunt on painting and drawing”, Dover Pubns
“People meet in bars after work all over the world and talk about the great problems of life and death and the world and politics and they don't take themselves seriously. They can do nothing else except chat about these things in bars after work”
“I just thought: Oh goodness, you can wear nice clothes and get your hair done and still be a feminist and a serious intellectual.”

Source : "Jacqueline Rose: a life in writing" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2012.
“A lot of the lads have a bat for the nets, a bat for facing the bowling machine and a separate bat for the match. I'll just crack on with a bat until it breaks - then crack on with another one.”

Source : Source: www.theguardian.com
“Mere wealth, I am above it, / It is the reputation wide, / The playwright's pomp, the poet's pride / That eagerly I covet.”
“I do fear God, but I will also tell you that when a doctor diagnoses you and the word 'cancer' comes out of his mouth, at that point, it changes your life and you do fear less and it also has allowed me to be a lot more open as a person. It's changed me.”
“I have spent too much of my life opening doors for catsâ€”I once calculated that, since the dawn of civilization, nine hundred and seventy-eight man-centuries have been used up that way. I could show you figures.”
“Look what you can become in pursuit of what you want, and look out for what you become in the pursuit of what you want--don't compromise!”

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