Takeshi Kitano Quotes

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• One thing I hate in movies is when the camera starts circling around the characters. I find that totally fake.
• My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!
• I believe you shouldn't force the audience's interpretation of a character or a story. The more you explain things, the less intriguing and imaginable they…
• I intentionally shoot violence to make the audience feel real pain. I have never and I will never shoot violence as if it's some kind…
• I always come to conclusions very fast. Well, that is one way of thinking, and the other way would be that I lack the necessary…
• For me comedy and violence has a lot in common. Just as you expect, comedy always lurks behind the most unexpected of circumstances.
• Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets.
• I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people for free.
• I thought maybe I could become like the next Van Gogh. I bought a sunflower and painted it, and it looked like the work of…
• The thing about art for me is that you can go on theorising your work forever, because it's open to interpretation.
• When people tell me I'm an artist, I say, 'What?' It's impossible for me to take the idea seriously.
• I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not that I'm good at everything but because I'm not…
• I don't really expect much from my life. So when I heard my films are premiering in film festival circuits I was glad of course…
• The film is ambiguous, an ambiguity that reflects on Japan today, and a world in which nothing is clear. Once I made the film, I…
• Sword fighting in film is not about how good the fighter is, but how good the actor receiving the blows is.

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