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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Boxing is a metaphor for hitting back and showing you can win in life.

— Takashi Miike

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

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

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

Personally, I enjoy being able to see something that you haven't seen before.

— Takashi Miike