Hirokazu Kore-eda Quotes

I really fight for my privacy.

An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means.There is no such thing in the country.

It's not considered polite in Russia to count the money in someone else's pocket.

There's always a sense that people will do things quite differently if they think they have privacy.

I just knew at an early time in my life how important privacy was.

I feel like everyone has the right to privacy, even if you're the most famous person in the world.

If you are everywhere, then you've sacrificed the very thing that you are complaining about, which is your own privacy.

America is a noisy culture, unlike, say, Finland, which values silence. Individualism, dominant in the U.S. and Germany, promotes the direct, fast-paced style of communication associated with extraversion. Collectivistic societies, such as those in East Asia, value privacy and restraint, qualities more characteristic of introverts.

I think the most privacy I had was when the game was going on.

I believe that it is critical for this country to have a zone of privacy —– for everyone,

American life is based on a reassurance that we like one another but won't violate one another's privacies. This makes it a land of small talk.

I demand my right to a private life, just as I respect that right for everybody else.

I respect someone's right to privacy and I want them to know it.

Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate.

In Sweden everybody has this perfect surface. Everyone's very polite and controls their feelings.

I don't think it's right that everybody knows everything about me.

It's nothing sinister but my private life belongs to me.

I do mind some of the intrusions on privacy.

I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.

We don't kiss in public. It's not done.

Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place?

You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.

Nothing in human life is inherently private.

I don't always want my opinion known. What little privacy I have left I'd like to maintain.

In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.