Takeshi Kitano Quotes

Movies become art after editing. Instead of just reproducing reality, they juxtapose images of it. That implies expression; that's art.

Every art form has its own beauty, but blending it with other forms in separate ways is okay.

Cinema as a means of expression fascinates me.

Video is freeing, but also lazier. You have to recreate the love of the moment.

I live, therefore I make films. I make film, therefore I live. Life. Movement. I make home movies, therefore I live. I live, therefore I make home movies.

My duty is to try to reach beauty. Cinema is emotion. When you laugh you cry.

I think cinema has this beautiful component. It's a universal language.

Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can't limit it to one particular culture.

I definitely have moments in my life where I discovered a film, and the language of the film itself spoke to me in a way, as if someone came up to you and started speaking a language you'd never heard but understood and was able to express things the language you knew could not.

I always say film is art, theater is life and television is furniture.

I think that cinema is medium of communication. It's as valid as novels or fine art.

Raman Raghav' was shot on location, but there are many stylistic things in it. I like this mixture of documentary and extreme stylization.

We can use films and art to express what is happening around all of us.

With a movie, you have the power of putting out an idea about the world and for people to take it seriously.

The language of film is further and further away from the language of theater, and is closer to music. It’s abstract but still narrative. Everything feels less rehearsed. It’s more experimental than classical.

Movies are a medium of expression like a symphony orchestra...or a painter's brush and canvas.

The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn't.

Most screenplays, most motion pictures, owe much more to the screenplay. Ingmar Bergman has such an economy of language, so little language in his piece, it is so visual, his moods are introduced and buttressed by camera rather than by word or character. But again, that's unique.

I felt, "Oh, film is a great art because I can pull in music and visual imagery, and it has its literary aspects and drama." Film was a sort of Wagnerian synthesis of the arts, as opposed to opera, which Wagner had thought would be. That's another art form that has seen its best days.

The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life.

Movies are our cheap and easy expression, the sullen art of displaced persons.

I think of filmmaking as a form of communication. Maybe it's also an art, but that's for somebody else to decide.

Filmmaking is really connected to life and all of the expressions that different arts found to allow access to life. Filmmaking touches on all of it.

Language is what books do very well and movement is what movies does very well.

I have a feeling that in art the need to understand and the need to communicate are one.