Hirokazu Kore-eda Quotes

The strangest thing about writing a sitcom, is never knowing if it will become anything but words on a page.

I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.

'The Full Monty' was my first feature script, and I wasn't that skilled at it.

I think titles are important to your career. Whether you reign as champion for a long time or just have it for the time being, to be part of a company and be their champion is always good to have on your resume.

'Basha' is the best screenplay in my career.

I'm pursuing film and TV, and it's exciting because I feel I can write in almost any genre now.

I don't know if I'm always going to be acting. Maybe when I grow up, I will be a scriptwriter. I already have a few scripts in my head.

In TV, it's so much more about the writers because they're the ones creating the universe. The writers are the ones who know what's up.

I was the youngest producer of a national television show when I was twenty-five. I took it to 182 markets. Tremendous success.

I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking.

In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist.

I wanted to do screenwriting. That's what I went to school for, but my major was overfilled, and when I got 'The Daily Show', I was a semester away from officially starting my major, so I never started that in particular.

It was hard to know if anything, any one particular thing, increased my career or not.

I wrote 'Mud' for Matthew McConaughey and had never met him.

If you want to write for films or TV, you must go to Hollywood.

Two of my dramas, 'Unforgotten' and 'River,' were airing at the same time, and Dad had read about my 'success' in a newspaper - he thought it was brilliant. I was thinking, 'Does this mean I'm going to be put in a box for a bit now?'

For all the hundreds of scripts that are out there, there's not that many that are amazing.

A producer friend of mine from film school had read some of my early screenplays - some experiments I had done to see how fast I could write something.

I'll never be a TV writer.

When I was at the 'Philadelphia Inquirer,' I was promoted nine times in my first 13 years. I ultimately went from general assignment to beats on St. Joe's and Temple, to backup writer, to NBA writer, to NBA columnist, to, ultimately, in 2003, to general sports columns.

I would never turn down an invitation to co-write another Pee-wee Herman movie!

Whenever I hear the narration for a new film, I have this process back home where my mother reads all my scripts.

Like a lot of people, I sold my first script in graduate school at UCLA, a 'Joan of Arc' for producer Joel Silver.

I'd been acting since I was a teenager. I'd come to the point where I was writing my own movies of the week for TV. That was fun.

I just want to work on good scripts.