Takeshi Kitano Quotes

I really don't look at myself as just one thing. I'm kind of scattered and like to have my hands in a lot of different projects. It makes me who I am.

I don't see myself as a person who just does one thing. I understand that sometimes that might sound a bit unprofessional. But I disagree.

I think it's just my nature. I can't work on one thing. I have to work on many things.

I'm not just a designer; I'm not just a retailer. I'm not just a street style person, whatever that is. I can instead do a little bit of everything.

All day long, I'm creative, and the second I get a little tired of any given medium, I just shut that area down and go to the next room. I just go do something else.

Being multi-disciplined is always a good thing.

I've always been a chameleon from book to book, like a director who does different films in the best possible way.

I get bored doing one thing only. I've been very lucky to explore a lot of different artistic territory and I don't see why I won't continue on that path.

I like doing a bunch of different things, being all over the place.

I guess there are people who are like, 'Here's one thing, and I'm gonna do it,' but I can't. I don't have the capacity to have that singular focus. I need to try to get a lot of things going 'cause you never know what's gonna hit.

I could never really imagine myself doing one thing, and I'm pretty sure that I'll end up doing four or five different things. I want to be a Renaissance woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I want to just do everything.

I've always strived to keep mixing it up, keep doing different things, and work in all different parts of our business.

The young people we hire today at Conde Nast are fearless polymaths.

I'm someone who likes to try new things and take on new challenges. I love making movies, but TV is also great. I really enjoy doing both.

It'd be nice to be what they call a Renaissance man.

To experiment different kinds of roles always works well.

The uniqueness about me is I don't do one thing perfectly or great. I do a little bit of everything. That's what makes me so unique. I'm just trying to master a little bit of everything.

I've always wanted to be - I know people think this is an insult - but a jack of all trades.

I realise that I'm a bit of a dabbler but it's nice to do stuff that's different.

I like showing versatility.

I want to be a genuine allrounder.

I take pride in being a jack of all trades.

When I started in the theater, the joy for me was playing different parts, and I get set alight by different people and different worlds. The biggest joy for me is jumping around and going from that to this to that, never feeling that I'm any one thing - because I'm not, and we as people aren't.

Somebody said that writers are like otters... Otters, if they do a trick and you give them a fish, the next time they'll do a better trick or a different trick because they'd already done that one. And writers tend to be otters. Most of us get pretty bored doing the same trick. We've done it, so let's do something different.

I think it is fatal to specialize. And all kinds of things show us that and that the more diverse we are in what we can do, the better.