Takashi Miike Quotes

Stanley Kubrick is one of the geniuses of this century.

All of my heroes, like Dali, are people who pioneered various forms of cinema.

Cocteau is someone who has made such a profound impression on me that there's no doubt he's influenced every one of my films.

I am definitely going to continue directing, but I am always going to try to explore new ways of making films. It really is possible to make films in different ways.

I didn't really know how to make a film when I made 'Control'. I had to create my own language, just as I did when I started taking photographs. I never studied either one.

He was the first to conceive of movies as an art form. His belief was that if the traditional art form would not find room for him, then he would make an art form of his own.

Godard is incredibly brilliant, the things he says. Apparently here in France, the most interesting thing when a new film of his is going to come out are his press conferences, because he's so brilliant.

I think Kurosawa was one of the first storytelling geniuses who began to change the narrative structure of films.

I'm a huge fan of Akira Kurosawa, a big Hitchcock fan.

I love David Fincher and I think he's a genius.

The film of tomorrow will not be directed by civil servants of the camera, but by artists for whom shooting a film constitutes a wonderful and thrilling adventure.

Hitchcock had a very strange mind.

Lars Von Trier is a genius. Every film he makes is so honest and powerful.

Looking back now, if I went to film school, it probably would have helped knowing what the best of the best of foreign films were, but that wasn't the case. In some ways, I think that led to my originality, because I hadn't seen anybody else.

Kurosawa is the sensei, the Shakespeare, of filmmaking.

I admire Akira Kurosawa. I have a deep admiration for him and I would love to make films like that.

The most creative director I have worked with is Mani Ratnam.

I've done more than 100 films, which is a sizeable chunk of life in cinema, so if something can startle me, then I think we can say we're looking at something fairly new.

We’re all children of Kubrick, aren’t we? Is there anything you can do that he hasn’t done?

My discovery of Tarkovsky's first film was like a miracle. Suddenly, I found myself standing at the door of a room the keys of which had, until then, never been given to me. It was a room I had always wanted to enter and where he was moving freely and fully at ease.

As a result of my life on the road and the increasing number of rainy afternoons in cinemas, I began to get the idea that I might write a film.

Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.

I love Brian De Palma.

Every single thing you see on-screen came out of somebody's creativity. It doesn't exist. Nature didn't deliver it to us. Everything had to be dreamed.

Frank Miller is more of a visionary than any director I've ever worked with, and he achieves that vision better than anyone I've ever worked with.