Hirokazu Kore-eda Quotes

Good actors, you always know what they're thinking. That's why they're good actors.

There is this miraculous thing I heard Hugh Grant talking about - the thing about screen acting is that you can read people's thoughts. You are trying to register something inside and usually the eyes in cinema are where you will register that.

An actor's body should be full of emotions, whether it is happiness or sorrow, pain or joy, enraged or elated.

I realised how important it is to have your body movement, your diction, tonality, dialogue delivery and to be in rhythm because everything is musical.

Crying does not equal good acting.

An emotional performance is usually more instinctive to an actor.

One of my favorite actors is Paul Newman. He could tell so much with a single look, whereas some actors would need an entire five page monologue to give off the feeling of what he could say with just a single look.

When actors are talking, they are servants of the dramatist. It is what they can show the audience when they are not talking that reveals the fine actor.

I play guys who never smile, and I never stop smiling.

If people need to be informed by lines, then there's no reason why the actor is saying the line except for information for the audience; I think there's something wrong.

I like to use my hands. When I was in theatre in college, that was one of my biggest notes: 'You use your hands too much.'

Emotions often must be portrayed from an inner feeling, of course, but I had a double advantage because I was learning to direct my as-yet expressionless feelings as well as gaining an ability to express emotion by a very conscious manipulation of my muscles.

As an actor, I've always been interested in making sure I can perform the role and the lines in the way the writer intended.

When I see an emotion being enacted by a great actor, I always feel I can never do that.

I think an actor without life experiences is empty.

Some of the best actors in the world are very exterior actors, Anthony Hopkins being one of them. He knows exactly how to turn his face to get a certain expression. He knows exactly what to do with eyes, and with his voice. It's very exterior.

I can never wink at the audience.

An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.

When you perform, you can convey emotions differently, and your look can reflect each of those emotions.

Nobody is more truthful when he's acting than De Niro.

An actor matures with experiences, and the more the emotions he/she has been through, the greater the intensity of performances.

I spend a lot of my time trying to draw the attention of actors to the minute and subtle details of human behavior, which was the sort of thing I was looking at when I was a neurologist.

There are times when I consciously give the character something physical - a walk, the way he sits, how he talks, or his lack of physicality, which is like a physicality.

For me really good acting is about subtext.

I found out was, by the rhythm of my chewing, how I chewed fast, slow or what have you, I could tell the audience what my character was thinking and feeling.