Takashi Miike Quotes

Eventually, it came to this place like, 'I'd like to direct, but I need to find the story to tell.' 'Man of Tai Chi' became the story to tell.

I wasn't one of those kids who grew up watching movies thinking, 'That's what I want to do when I grow up.' I didn't really particularly know I had an aptitude for it.

Back in the 1990s, I had an opportunity to make a film. But I realized that it is better for me to go in stages so I could explore myself as an actor and in the process I started writing scripts.

On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing.

Film, for me, has been a process of learning on the job.

I'm a late bloomer. It's taken me a long time to find my voice, and I think all the records I've made over the years, I was finding my voice, and that's part of the process.

I really took filmmaking very seriously... It was an honor and then a crutch also, because at a young age, I was like, I guess I'm a serious filmmaker. I never set out to be a serious filmmaker. I just set out to make movies.

The only reason you make a movie is not to make or set out to do a good or a bad movie, it's just to see what you learn for the next one.

I honestly never wanted to direct. It was only when I started to work on 'Alexander the Great' that I realized I had to direct. I saw something so specifically in my mind, I could not leave it to someone else.

When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director.

I love the work, I love being in front of the camera and working with actors and directors and creating something. For me, it's like learning everyday.

I'm still finding myself as an artist. I'm still experimenting a little bit.

I would say that 'After the Storm' is much more informed by my personal life than my other movies.

I got my MFA from AFI as a director in 2010. I've had time to make the shorts that I made previous to 'Hereditary' and to kind of build these movies in my head.

I see myself as an explorer more than a storyteller. A great storyteller, in control of her craft, must be the same person when she finishes telling a story as she was at the start. But I want to be transformed by my filmmaking, by the journey I take.

Filmmaking is so much about catharsis anyway. It's therapeutic.

By the time I finished my first three films, I realised this is something I want to do for a long time, learn, and grow in.

When I did my first film, I had a fair idea of what I liked and what I didn't while watching an actor in front of the camera. After I finished the film, I thought I had exhausted everything I knew. As I moved from one story, setting and character to another, I discovered something new.

Directing was a transformative experience for me, one that I really enjoyed.

The Artist's Way is a spiritual journey, a pilrimage home to the self.

I guess you could say I've been writing all my life.

Use the creative process - singing, writing, art, dance, whatever - to get to know yourself better.

I love writing and directing because it's great therapy. Every project I've done, there's been a personal connection.

I felt that with 'In A Perfect World' I was still kind of finding myself - not just as a musician, but also in love and in life.

I think of my poems as personal and public at the same time. You could say they serve as psychological overlays. One fits on top of the other, and hopefully there's an ongoing evolution of clarity.