Takashi Miike Quotes

I feel 100% sure that I have the career that I have today because of independent filmmaking.

I think that there's a lot more freedom in the low budget, the independent films where, unfortunately, you don't have the money, necessarily, to get the orchestras in there to play a lot of stuff. But, you have a lot more freedom, very often.

My heart is in independent film-making. For me, it's where the fun, gritty storytelling is being told.

I definitely think independent film is very exciting, and you get to sometimes take bigger risks. So that's always a challenge and something that I look forward to.

I'm from that world where I feel so comfortable making small independent movies.

In the beginning, it wasn't even a question of deciding I'm going to do independent film and not commercial films - I wasn't being offered any commercial films, and there wasn't an independent scene.

The problem with doing a schlocky or big budget studio film is that it wouldn't actually be fun for me. It wouldn't be exciting.

You make a movie for 9k for the freedom it allows you.

I believe in making movies very inexpensively; I think that way too much money is spent on making movies. Enough movies are being made, but not enough experimental ones.

I couldn't stand still at a desk for another year. I wanted to go out there and make films.

The cool thing about those small-budget movies is that there's a tremendous amount of freedom the filmmakers have since there's less money at stake.

I think you do independent movies because you're looking to cut away from commercial movies.

At the end of the day, the less money you have, the easier it is to make a movie.

In 'Haraamkhor,' I have explored a few things which I wouldn't have been able to do in bigger films. The process of shooting this film was so organic that it enhanced me as an actor and an artiste.

The reach of big-budget films is bigger, but I have always loved doing films that I believe in.

Saw' was a film that James Wan and I came up with back in Australia and we were just hoping anyone, literally, anyone would make that film and if nobody would give us the money we were going to shoot it in a garage somewhere.

I feel that if you want to make films, you have to be willing to make it without a fee. You get a deferment, I guess.

The only chance for a guy like me is to make a decent picture for a reasonable budget. If it brings in a profit for investors, maybe I'll have the opportunity to make something else.

I don't choose to make low-budget films. But that is the reality of surviving in the Japanese film industry. However, the trade off is, since we're working on small budgets, we have freedom. You can't buy this freedom with money. With this freedom, I think there are an infinite number of possibilities.

Even with a big budget, you can make a niche film.

People gravitate occasionally to the brilliantly made art low budget films, which is maybe one out of every five hundred low budget films made.

If you want to do a film, steal a camera, steal raw stock, sneak into a lab and do it!

My good films were independent and my bad films were not.

I want to be able to say, 'you think you're odd, I'm even odder and I made it - you can too!' I want to direct, do more with 'The Dance Scene,' sign artists and just provide opportunities. I'm just getting started and having the time of my life!

The quality of mainstream cinema has changed. A lot of independent voices feel they can leave everything behind and make independent films.