Takashi Miike Quotes

I have fun making films. I love making films. It's the only thing I know how to do. And I do it well.

I've been lucky. I've made films that I really like. It's been a combination of what comes to me and what I choose. I've gone after lots of things that I didn't get, pet projects that everybody ends up chasing after. Really, you're lucky if you get anything.

I love making films more than anything, but it's tough.

Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come.

Perhaps I'm not a good actor, but I would be even worse at doing anything else.

I'm a musician. It's what I do! I wouldn't be too good at anything else.

Acting is the only thing I ever really wanted to do, and I'm really ill-prepared to do anything else.

Acting, producing, writing, directing - it's all part of something that I believe I was born to be part of.

I love acting, so it's easy when you have a passion for it. I've always found the harder you work, the luckier you get.

Songwriting is my craft now, and it's more than something I just enjoy.

For me, football is what I love to do most. It is also the thing I'm better doing than anything else.

You make money at anything you're good at. If you're a good doctor, you make money.

I realized that acting isn't necessarily what I love, but it's what I do. But I really do love filmmaking.

We have something that is unique. We have our craft. We have our art. We have our desire.

All I knew how to do was to act. That's the only thing I had in my favor. That was the thing that propelled me forward.

Denzel Washington: I like the collaboration, I like seeing people do well, so I really plan to direct the rest of my days.

I always loved comedy, but I never knew it was something you could learn to do. I always thought that some people are born comedians ... just like some people are born dentists.

From now on - specialize; never again make any concession to the ninety-nine percent of you which is like everyon else at the expense of the one percent which is unique.

Find something you like to do so much that you would gladly do it for nothing; then learn to do it so well that people are happy to pay you for it.

Let every man practice the art that he knows best.

The combination of passion and art is what makes someone a linchpin.

If I have any insight at all to contribute it is this: find out what you are really good at and stick to it.

I have been very fortunate to have been able to make a living from what I love to do best - performing and singing for people.

However you make your living is where your talent lies.

Thomas Muller is not the best in the world. But he is the best in what he does