Takashi Miike Quotes

If you look at the types of directors out there, I'm not as weird as most of them.

The idea of working with Steven Spielberg was very attractive. He's such a master. He knows the language of the camera and of filmmaking, which gives him a great freedom.

I knew Spike Jonze would do something really interesting with it.

I love Brian De Palma.

Yes, there are directors I admire, the mavericks. Altman. There are many good directors.

He's Soderbergh, we're working for him. It doesn't matter what he's doing; we'll see it at the premiere.

Every director is so different from every other one.

I have a very clear vision, and I come from film, where director is God, so if there's a clash, it's painful.

It's such a strange combination that I'd be unhappy to make anything like that without Landis directing.

I would love to work with Cameron Crowe; he's definitely one of my favorite directors.

It is universally agreed that Jean Renoir was one of the greatest of all directors, and he was also one of the warmest and most entertaining.

Nobody makes movies like Oliver Stone.

I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.

I think I might like to try film again just as an experiment, but I know that I could never do the mainstream thing again.

I just wanted to work with David Lynch.

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

To be a director, you have to think you're the best. Ever since I went to film school, I imagined that you have to think deep down that you want to be Martin Scorsese or you want to be P.T. Anderson. Like, am I as good as those guys? Absolutely not. I feel like I keep learning, and I feel like I keep getting better.

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.

'Zakhm' was my last film as a director.

I would love to direct a movie, something I really like with a great cast. What a dream!

I used to run with Chris Nolan before he was 'Chris Nolan.' I remember when he was trying to sell 'Memento,' and he just couldn't.

I mean, I'm always happy to be compared with Scorsese!

There are definitely directors I want to work with like Dibakar Banerji, Zoya Akhtar, Vishal Bharadwaj, and so many more.

I've always felt like an outsider, and I'll probably continue to always feel like an outsider. Hopefully that's a good thing. I feel like I approach things differently than other designers.

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