Takashi Miike Quotes

Of all the things I've done in life, directing a motion picture is the most beautiful. It's the most exciting and the nearest than an interpretive craftsman, such as an actor can possibly get to being a creator.

It's kind of dangerous to cut in the camera, but that's the only way I know how to direct.

A script like 'Nightcrawler' gives me an opportunity to truly realize a vision that's mine, which is exciting.

I never had any master plan about directing, and I don't really write.

I don't really make movies with an intention other than asking myself, 'Do I love the character, and do I love the story?'

Often people going into directing want to learn as much as they possibly can about "technique." And I say the hell with that.

It sounds kind of flighty, filmmaker-y, but I believe films are a piece of art. They are meant to be what they're meant to be, and sometimes the artist is informed by the film of what it needs to be.

It was important on The Shipping News to have my house far enough away from each location so I had this time in the morning to think about my shots and still remain open to surprises once I got to the set.

I like directing. It takes a lot out of you, but I'd like to do it again - I just have to find a story I want to tell.

I really never imagined that I could ever even direct anything, so 'Girls Like Girls' was co-directed.

One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.

I've read a hundred fantastic scripts that didn't pan out as films, and I completely put that on the directors. I've also read some mediocre scripts that have ended up being amazing, and I credit that to the directors. They're the storytellers. If you don't have a good storyteller, you really have nothing.

I'm not very aware of styles. We never talk about styles before we start shooting, or even during shooting, because I think the film will bring you there.

I thoroughly enjoyed working on Enemy of the State. Tony Scott is an important director, and has an amazing ability to express himself, and he doesn't do it in musical terms, he does it in emotional terms. I got along really well with him.

From the director's point of view, it's infinitely easier to do violence than to do a good dramatic scene.

When you've written a film and directed it and it comes out exactly as you imagined it, it's pretty boring.

We had a script that was really solid and we knew how we were going to shoot and how the energy of it was going to go. So it gave us a lot of freedom to use the camera as a character.

Directing is creating a whole. You're able to combine different elements and create a film that is unique and true to your vision.

Making a movie and not directing the little moments is like drinking a soda and leaving the little slurp puddle for someone else.

There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people's minds.

When you make a movie, you can only make the movie that you would want to see.

Directing was easy for me because I was a writer director and did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay.

There were movies that always made me want to be a director. You see brilliant scenes and the way the emotions were handled. I thought, I'd really like to do that.

I know the movies that I've liked, and I know the experience that they've given me, so the goal is always to try to create a movie that I would like myself and that would knock me out, challenge me or intrigue me in some way. That's been my criteria for figuring out what I want to do, or also when I'm writing something or creating a scene.

All these directors, and I would include the Coen brothers and Quentin, have a very unique vision of what they want. They listen to ideas and make people feel like everyone is making the film.