Takashi Miike Quotes

We don't make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies.

When I came out to Hollywood, I discovered the perfect place for my creative madness - Cannon Pictures.

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

Movies are the work of a collective conscious. It takes 500-800 people on a movie to complete a vision.

I long to make films. I'm dying to be inside the next film. I always hope there will be another film.

Making films has got to be one of the hardest endeavors known to humankind.

There's not a lot of good movies being made.

My favorite film is always the one that I most recently worked on.

I care about cinema even though I haven't made many films.

I don't really care where I work, actually, because you know making a movie is like living in movie world. There's such a secluded world, and the director is the king ruling the country, and everybody's building this little town to speak in symbolism.

I want to make my own movie.

I have a really good relationship with Focus Features; we had a wonderful time working together on 'Sin Nombre.'

Once I've finished a film I just want to get on and make another one.

As a director, my job is to spend money, and the producer's is to save money. Masoom, Bandit Queen and the first Queen Elizabeth have been my most uncompromised films.

I love making movies.

When you're a filmmaker you're part of a very expensive art form.

It's a good time to be making movies, despite the cynicism people have about Hollywood.

Hollywood still makes things. We still export a couple billion dollars' worth of product overseas. Original, new product. Some people might not agree that it's original or new, but basically it is.

The lifeblood of my career has been independent film.

There is some pleasure in doing a movie and problem solving on a specific movie and getting a movie made, but once they are done, we don't look at them again, much less relate one to another.

I think the movie business, you meet people, and you work intensely with them, and you have these relationships - there's an intimacy to it and a familiarity to the relationship because you're having to let go of all your barriers so you can let people in and work with them.

When you're making a movie, it's a very interiorised world.

My first time out of the gate, I made three movies in four years, and they were all very back to back to back.

I like to work in cinema everywhere.

No one understood why I would wanna be behind the camera, not in front of the camera, and so no one took me seriously, and people said, 'Oh, well, this is just a hobby isn't it?' and I said, 'No, I really love this. I wanna make this my career,' and I did not have a lot of support at all for many years. People just kind of thought it was a joke.