Hirokazu Kore-eda Quotes

When you hang on a little too long, you disappoint your fans, and deep, deep down inside, you're disappointing yourself, and that's the part that hurts you the most.

I think you always have regrets.

I always thought I should have been a better mother.

I expend far too much of my maternal energies on guilt and regret.

My character, Rick Spleen, is a what-if version of me, really, where nothing did quite turn out right and everything else is still around the corner.

I've gone through that with my mother and father and here I was in a similar situation. I've wronged her and I've wronged the family. Because when these things happen, it doesn't just happen to you, it happens to the people around you and the family.

I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.

I don't have any gnawing guilt over contributing to any unhappiness suffered by my husbands. They were as much to blame as I was.

I do feel guilty. I do. Especially about my family, my children. I write about them, and I know that this will haunt them as well through their lives. Why did I do that to them?

I've dated people who I thought were going to be a big deal in my life, and I've also spent long periods by myself.

I got married for the wrong reasons. I was tired of being alone. I have to own that. It was me, not her.

A significant regret is that I was not as good a father as I would have ideally liked to be. I was not, I think, a bad father.

I love my son, but I was never there for him, so I understand why he hates me.

I may or may not have disappointed Malaika as a boyfriend and a husband, but not as the father of her child.

I wish I had acted better. I wish I had been the kind of sister who was patient enough to show my brother the proper spelling for 'Power Rangers.'

I gave you life. You’re wasting it.

I have one regret: I wish I was a better father.

I wrote 'Monster' and thought that it would solve a lot of my problems, that I'd have money in the bank, but I felt no different. I was still searching for something.

I think a lot of people want to blame their fathers for not being good enough when they were growing up. I think it can be an excuse for not coming to terms with your own problems.

Sometimes I think I've been a bad father.

My childhood friends and I would have been featured in 'The Achievers: The Story of the Big Lebowski Fans,' but I never signed the release form we received from the producers. I am both proud and ashamed of this fact.

In retrospect, I had a lot of shortcomings and didn't take care of the things that needed to be taken care of, and that's all my fault.

I didn't do anything productive during my break after 'Dream Girl.' I didn't even take a vacation!

Things said or done long years ago Or things I did not do or say But thought that I might say or do, Weigh me down, and not a day But something is recalled, My conscience or my vanity appalled.

At the same time I know that it’s not really their fault, at least not completely. I did my part too. I did it on a hundred different days and in a thousand different ways, and I know it. But this makes the anger worse, not better.