Takashi Miike Quotes

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

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

Writing does change you, and of course it feels good to do things, so you could say writing is de facto therapeutic. But really, one writes to write.

All my shows are therapy, trying to navigate interesting subjects so I can work them out and to be honest and say some things are beyond the wit of this man.

Most things I go through I have to write about.

I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.

Just writing and being in the studio was like therapy for me.

I explain at the parties that I believe knitting is a transformative and intriguing act that can change the life and brain of the person doing it, and that knitting is a perfect metaphor for life and insight into some better ways through it.

Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on a date.

Acting is always therapeutic.

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

I'm on a constant path of self-discovery and change. I'm trying to become a better person, a nicer person. I love therapy - it's brilliant.

For me, writing is a parenthesis where I can make sense of life.

I have always been interested in the idea of self-reinvention.

I really don't feel that writing is therapy.

I had to find the courage to turn my life around.

I've got rid of a lot of cynicism and anger. I feel positive about my development, and I just want to carry on making music and building myself as a person.

Music enables me to cleanse and shed the things that I feel are holding me back from growing, or growing up.

Style can change your look, certainly, but it can also change your life.

I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.

I've let a lot of things go, and obviously football is one of them. I think the hardest thing to let go is your self-image. That's what I'm working on now.

Writing gave me a life.

I've tried to reinvent myself from time to time, and I enjoy doing movies.

What 'Short Term 12' did was it gave me the confidence to explore my intuition more. The healing process that came for me for making that movie and then sharing it with people - I was able to see, first hand, that movies can have a healing power and they can teach us things.