Takeshi Kitano Quotes

Television is full of fictional and real violence that's turned into entertainment.

The more real the murder is, the less interested I am in seeing it. It's hard enough to watch the news.

Violence has been a part of films since the beginning of time. It's been a form of entertainment.

I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad!

I have a hard time watching people getting punched on screen; I have to close my eyes a lot.

When you see violence in movies in general, it's very quick and painless, which isn't what it's like.

The condition of the wounded touched my heart deeply.

The worst thing about this modern world is that people think you get killed on television with zero pain and zero blood. It must enter into kids' heads that it's not very messy to kill somebody, and it doesn't hurt that much. That's a real sickness to me. That's a real sick thing.

People always ask me, 'I don't know how you could watch that, how that affects you,' and I just tell them, 'I went through it in real life, so it's like pilots watching a 'Top Gun' movie or cyclists watching a bicycle movie,' something like that.

I don't think there is anything wrong with watching violence but I just think you have to present it in the appropriate light. I was like just watch how many accidents and deaths horror causes. Whereas I don't think anybody is going to go: "Oh, I just saw The Shining and I think I'm going to go axe somebody!" These movies aren't for everybody. The dark side of anything isn't for everybody. I think that you have to have some sort of responsibility in how you portray it because I always want the violence to seem real and if it seems disgusting then good, because it should.

But huge photographs of dead bodies are slightly different. I couldn't find much humor there.

I can't watch the news. It's extremely unsettling. Certain people can be a little desensitized because of movies, and I'm totally a part of that world, so I understand. But when you're actually seeing what's happening, you can't help but be a little affected.

I like violence to be upsetting. The only reason to do it subtley is if doing it subtley makes it more effective somehow.

Tragedy can break the heart but not the dam of the tearducts while schmaltz can dissolve the most hardened sophisticate.

The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time.

The older I get, the more I can't stand violence and have a hard time with seeing people die in horrific ways. It gets harder and harder to watch and deal with that stuff.

Everytime you see a flood like that on the news you tell yourself: That's it. That's my heart.

When you get older, it feels like happy memories and sad memories are pretty much the same thing. It is all just emotion in the end. And any of it can make you weep.

I'm so sick of seeing guns in movies, and all this violence; and if there was going to be violence in Pines, I wanted it to actually be narrative violence. I wasn't interested in fetishizing violence in any way of making it feel cool or slow-motion violence. I wanted it to be just violence that affected the story.

Her heart went out to him with a stronger movement than ever, at the thought that people would blame him. Maggie hated blame; she had been blamed her whole life, and nothing had come of it but evil tempers.

Fine words lack all meaning when we are confronted by real suffering.

And when Eleanor smiled, something broke inside of him. Something always did.

There is in Aristotle an almost complete absence of what may be called benevolence or philanthropy. The sufferings of mankind . . . there is no evidence that they cause him unhappiness except when the sufferers happen to be his friends.

Before my eyes are many miserable scenes, the suffering of others and myself forces my hands to move. I become a machine for writing.