Hirokazu Kore-eda Quotes

I think some things are just meant to happen; you can't change your fate. Maybe we have a small amount of control.

I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.

Man blindly works the will of fate.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road

Choice is destiny's soul mate.

I come down on the side of free will but I have sympathy for those who believe in fate because there is something about life which we feel we have no control over.

You speak of destiny as if it was fixed.

It's the same with menus and men and just about anything else: we think we're choosing things for ourselves, but in fact we may not be choosing anything. It could be that everthing's being decided in advance and we pretend we're making choices. Free will may be an illusion. I often think that.

I'm a very big believer in fate.

I become my characters, and then try to allow events in the story to take their own course. I try not to play God, but to let them work out their own destiny.

Luck really has nothing to do with human existence, since God is not a random God.

I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.

There is a great suspicion of saying that anyone, especially a child, is 'the product of destiny,' or 'formed by fate,' or 'predestined for a certain life.' I am suspicious, too, of efforts to cage children or adults in preconceived ideas of who they are or should be.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.

The minute you start to strategize too much, the more you start to think you're in control of your own fate. And you're not, really.

Character and fate are two words for the same thing.

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.

Fate is for losers.

I'm not one of those New Age types that believe 'it's all meant to be' and that our lives have been scripted by an invisible hand.

And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.

Events are not a matter of chance.

I have never believed that things happen by themselves.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.