Takashi Miike Quotes

With every role that I do, I always see a little bit of me, a little bit of art and life.

My films are always a reflection of where I am in my life.

With every project you do, you bring out a part of yourself, and it seems to be quite a good way of expanding a person.

I'm doing things that are more artistic again, more close to the material that I love. I don't disparage those things that I did. They're just not as much reflective of who I am.

Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.

Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself.

I believe acting to be my own journey through connection more than anything else, but that's only my take on it.

I am still the place where creation does some work on itself.

Making your life is ultimately an extraordinarily creative endeavor.

I have done a lot of work internally to find out who I am, what voice Eamonn Walker has and how he wants to put it out there.

I've etched out who I am through myriad haircut attempts, outfit attempts, beauty attempts, diet attempts. It's been an evolution.

All of my films have been autobiographical - it's all I've got to go on.

None of the records I make are ever a deliberate construction - they're always an expression of who I am at the time and where I am in my life.

I'm always thinking about what my identity is.

If you're writing for yourself as an artist, you are always pulling on your own experiences.

I think 'Lost Boy' is more of a metaphor for oneself. When I listen to that song, I don't picture someone else. I kind of wrote it from a very honest place.

I keep rediscovering myself with every film. It is great to be doing that, it gives great satisfaction.

The moving toward one's inner self is a long pilgrimage for a painter. It offers many temporary successes and high points, but impels him on toward the more adequate image.

Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.

The portrait I do best is of the person I know best.

All my songs are where I am.

Through my films I'm eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don't know if I'm ever going to get there, but I'm slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I'm 85, I'll look back and say, 'All right, that about sums it up.'

I began observing, making paintings of my surroundings, taking a vow of silence, listening, composing music, writing, and making time for formal education. Then I started telling stories.

I look at the artistic process as like experiencing the world, channeling it through your personality and sending it back out there. That's the process.

One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!