Takashi Miike Quotes

I am shy. People misconstrue it as arrogance.

I am the most misunderstood and misrepresented of men. Misrepresented because misunderstood.

I am surprised at the way people seem to perceive me, and sometimes I read stories and hear things about me and I go "ugh." I wouldn't like her either. It's so unlike what I think I am or what my friends think I am.

I think you can get the wrong impression about me from my work and think I'm always a bit down. I'm not that way at all. I'm fun-loving.

I've worked with a lot of directors, some of them you wouldn't really attach the word 'artist' to their name.

The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm stupid.

Ah, there's a director. Astonishing, Spike Lee. A feisty guy, but a guy who's, I think, incredibly misunderstood. I think people review his politics or his color as opposed to his filmmaking sometimes. Because he's a wonderful, wonderful filmmaker and a lover of the art.

I think people have a misconception of me, period. My life has been a whirlwind sometimes, but it's different to what people think. I definitely feel like there's a misconception about me and who I am.

A lot of people tell me, once they get to know me, that they're surprised that I'm nothing like they think I'll be.

There's a discrepancy between what you think you are and what other people think you are.

Directing takes a lot of time.

It's funny: people who meet me say, 'I thought you'd be different.' But I'm still the same guy.

I'm actually much more shy and self-conscious than people's perception of me.

No one really knows me. People think they know me.

I love working with Darren Lynn Bousman. He is such a cool director with really great ideas.

I'm the guy who wrote The Authority Song. Did they think I was kidding? Did they think it was only a song to entertain?

People are intimidated when they first meet me, but it doesn't take them long to realise I'm just an average person.

I think for such a long time people had this misconception of who I was and what I was about.

I'm surprised sometimes at how some of my actions are misinterpreted.

Women think the people that I play are smoldering and dangerous. I look in the mirror, and I go, 'I don't get it.'

There is a director for a reason, because a director knows what's best for the movie. You just give your director as much as you can to work with, and hopefully, the decisions they make are going to be great.

It's really odd that I've got this kind of sullen reputation - I never saw myself that way.

I have always been misunderstood.

Everyone believes or perceives me to be a ruthless cynic, but far from it.

I view myself still as a director. That's what I do.