Takashi Miike Quotes

I got a lot of energy from directing the film 'Ladies In Lavender.' You wonder if you have the stamina because as an actor you can lounge around the trailer during the scenes you're not in, but as a director, you're there from first thing in the morning to last thing at night every day of the week. I found it incredibly energising.

The experience of making a movie is far removed from watching the end result. It's exciting, but it still makes me squirm.

The hardest thing for me about making movies, and that included 'M*A*S*H' because it was made like a movie, was starting and stopping.

I'd love to direct, I'd love to produce. I'd love to learn all about it, and being around it all the time certainly helps.

When we shoot 24, there are so many things I have to worry about, from the script to technical things to my performance, that I don't have a second to be bored or take anything for granted. We produce 24 hours of film a season, which is like making 12 movies.

I'm anxious to make another film.

Making a film is beyond exciting. It's so exciting, it's exhausting.

Filmmaking is a very complex form - ya know, acting, lighting, screenwriting, storytelling, music, editing - all these things have to come together.

Well, I think every film student goes into film school thinking they want to write and direct their own movies, and they don't realize how much goes into it, and what a process it is.

You could get in rehearsals, pre-production, anything that would actually contribute to the understanding of how a film gets made. I actually find those things increase people's interest in a movie and like that better than worrying about showing the tricks behind the curtain.

Making a movie, under any circumstances, is a highly stressful occupation.

To make a film is eighteen months of your life. It's seven days a week. It's twenty hours a day.

Making a movie is like you're behind the wheel, and you're driving through the obstacle course, and the pedal is down, and you can't brake.

I don't know how to make movies without getting my hands dirty.

If you're writing a screenplay for a feature, you don't have any involvement with the casting process, the editing process, the set design, the costume design, or any of that stuff.

Producing a film is not an easy job at all.

The experience of an actual film from idea to screen will teach me more than most books and lectures.

Every aspect of filmmaking has lured me. Although I'm an actor now, one day, I'd like to direct a film. It's not as though I'm all set to take the plunge; I cherish this dream of calling the shots, but only after I groom myself with the right kind of preparation and the technical know-how.

I've always been interested in directing, writing, and producing, so when I went behind the scenes, it was like a whole new world that I got to experience.

It takes two years to make a good film.

I've always been a relaxed person on set, but I think the main thing is I think about it from an editing point of view way more than I did before.

You never know what to expect when you're a writer visiting a movie set.

The best thing about switching from being an actor to being a director is that you don't have to shave or hold your stomach in anymore.

So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.

I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.