Ishiguro, Kazuo Filmography

• Never Let Me Go
  2010, role: producer
• Never Let Me Go
  2010, role: writer
• The White Countess
  2005, role: writer
• The Saddest Music in the World
  2003, role: writer
• Blind Loyalty, Hollow Honor: England's Fatal Flaw
  2001, role: actor , character name: Himself, novelist
• The Remains of the Day: The Filmaker's Journey
  2001, role: actor , character name: Himself, novelist
• Love and Loyalty: The Making of 'The Remains of the Day'
  1993, role: actor , character name: Himself, author
• The Remains of the Day
  1993, role: writer
• The Gourmet
  1984, role: writer
• A Profile of Arthur J. Mason
  1984, role: writer

Famous quotes by Kazuo Ishiguro:

"There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one."

"People were incredibly kind to our family and went out of their way to help."

"People aren't quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They're not quite sure what is being recommended, what literary values it stands for, because every year it stands for something different."

"There's a practical problem about time and energy, and a more subtle problem of what it does to a writer's head, to continually analyze why they write, where it all comes from, where it's going to."

"Nagasaki is not just a few hazy images. I remember it as a real chunk of my life."

"It is a protected world. To some extent at least you have to shield children from what you know and drip-feed information to them. Sometimes that is kindly meant, and sometimes not."

"Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory,."

"All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma."

"When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it."

"There are things I am more interested in than the clone thing. How are they trying to find their place in the world and make sense of their lives? To what extent can they transcend their fate? As time starts to run out, what are the things that really matter?"

"I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been through phases of autobiographical or experimental stuff."

"I'm very fortunate in that I don't have money problems. I have lunch with my wife at home. I don't have to commute, so I have much more time with my family."

"Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I think of 15 years ago from now, that's 1990, and that seems like yesterday to me."

"Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just determined to write the books I had to write."

"I felt slightly superior to student politics, for instance. I had no reason to think this, but I thought of myself as slightly more seasoned. I became quite cynical talking to my student friends."

"I do feel part of that generation of people who were rather idealistic in the '70s and became disillusioned in the '80s. Not just about social services issues, but the world."

"I was a little concerned that a lot of people thought I wrote Merchant Ivory movies. I also thought if I was ever going to write something strange and difficult, that was the time."

"The world is crawling with authors touring now. They're like performance artists."

"I couldn't speak Japanese very well, passport regulations were changing, I felt British, and my future was in Britain. And it would also make me eligible for literary awards. But I still think I'm regarded as one of their own in Japan."

"Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory."