Hirokazu Kore-eda Quotes

Every movie I make teaches me something. That's why I keep making them.

That's the most important thing for me is just figuring out how and if I'm growing as an artist.

I cherished every moment with the national team - the good ones and the bad ones - because you learn from your mistakes.

I don't want to compare myself to Picasso, but he had four or five periods in his life. Any good artist grows and changes and matures.

In life we try to grow and better ourselves. As an artist, I feel like I've grown tremendously.

I take this art very seriously and passionately. I love what I do. You can't help but grow. That's not to say you don't make mistakes or make bad choices, but that's part of the art. Painters paint bad paintings.

My growth as an artist and a person has been so slow and gradual, it's hard to make a story out of it.

You hope to be a part of something that makes you a better artist when you leave.

Everything I do is a learning experience. It's still fun to me because I grow with every project and every song.

It's good for people to be able to see an archive of an artist learning how to write and getting better, especially for teenagers who are starting to write: to see that I started out making pretty easy and weird and bad-sounding music and that you can teach yourself how to write over a long period of time.

You evolve with each and every film you do. In every film that I did, I learnt something or the other, and I am constantly learning and hopefully becoming better.

I love develop as an artist, to push my envelope, to grow, to make mistakes, to learn from them and to try and be the very best that I can be while I'm on this earth.

A Tribe Called Quest was one of those things where it was supposed to be about growth. When I say 'growth,' I don't just mean with our sound or our product, but Tribe was supposed to grow as individuals.

Being an artist, it's all a journey, and you learn where the subtle patterns lie.

I think that as an artist, the more that you can do to diversify, and kind of challenge yourself, the more you grow.

It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person.

For me, making music is a continuous learning experience, and I think that it feeds itself.

I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.

I always think that you finish one movie, you start a new one, and you think, 'OK. I did that last one. Now I've learned. I know how this works.' Then by the end of the movie, you think, 'No, I don't, really.'

I feel like I introduce another level of my creative ability on every album.

All artists are people of growth. It's like food, you take the good and leave the rest.

I had a pretty steep learning curve in film - as I'm still learning.

I think the more I learn, the more I see, and what you see makes your eyes and talent evolve.

With 'Brick,' I wrote the script when I was 23 and didn't make the movie until I was 30.

My songwriting has evolved, just as I've evolved as a person.