Live life before making movies, because you cannot make films about life, without having lived one. — Takashi Miike Copy Share Image
I loved spaghetti westerns but besides these pure entertainment movies, there was also something different. — Takashi Miike Copy Share Image
First Love' is one of my most hopeful movies. It's about love and relationships, so in that way it's different from my… — Takashi Miike Copy Share Image
It's not my goal to make so many movies. It's just sort of a natural process, and I'm just doing my job.… — Takashi Miike Copy Share Image
I'm just trying to make movies simply about life. Naturally, when I'm doing that, horror, violence, and all those kinds of things… — Takashi Miike Copy Share Image
I myself have always had that secret desire to become something completely different and enact revenge on certain things. So I do… — Takashi Miike Copy Share Image
It wasn't really my intention to make movies quickly - it's more to do with the reality of the Japanese film industry.… — Takashi Miike Copy Share Image
Normally sports day is once a year for kids, where you have fun, and everybody is jostling. For us, making movies is… — Takashi Miike Copy Share Image
When you see the violence of Hollywood movies, there is a tendency that the hero is combating and confronting many people, without… — Takashi Miike Copy Share Image
When I'm watching one of my movies in a festival with fans who are just into it and they love it? I… — Takashi Miike Copy Share Image
Every medium has its own kind of freedom. I don't want to just cross from one to the next. I want to enjoy the… — Takashi Miike Copy Share Image
You hide your instinctive self and instead create a social self with lies. That's how people are able to get along with each other.… — Takashi Miike Copy Share Image
When you try to be true to the script, changes occur. A script is there to show us a certain direction. But when you… — Takashi Miike Copy Share Image
Japanese of my generation try to get through life without stepping on anyone's toes; in some ways that's unnatural and stressful. The yakuza are… — Takashi Miike Copy Share Image
I don't think I'll ever get tired of making films. I wish I could make so many that it would make me get tired,… — Takashi Miike Copy Share Image
When you see the violence of Hollywood movies, there is a tendency that the hero is combating and confronting many people, without much harm… — Takashi Miike Copy Share Image
We have this desire for that balance between death and life or death and joy. We want to believe that something we can also… — Takashi Miike Copy Share Image
Boxing is a metaphor for hitting back and showing you can win in life. — Takashi Miike Copy Share Image
You can't really change somebody completely, deep inside your nature. But I think what I did was admit to myself what kind of a… — Takashi Miike Copy Share Image
When I'm watching one of my movies in a festival with fans who are just into it and they love it? I end up… — Takashi Miike Copy Share Image
For me, no matter what movie I make, no matter what the genre or the budget, they all have the same theme at their… — Takashi Miike Copy Share Image
Personally, I enjoy being able to see something that you haven't seen before. — Takashi Miike Copy Share Image
