Takashi Miike Quotes

Whoever my films are about, they'll hopefully still have my sensibility, whatever that is.

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.

Personally, I feel that in my own work I wanted to look programmed or impersonal but I don't really believe I am being impersonal when I do it. And I don't think you could do this.

Find your own specific voice in filmmaking and go for it. Either people will get it or they won't and that's what it's all about.

I write the way I write.

I have many musical inspirations, but I would really love to just be me. My very own artist.

I love what I do and the music I make and the bands I've done, especially Fall Out Boy. I also love what I love, and I don't care if other people like it.

I don't want to look exactly the same in everything I do. And if I'm not identifiable, then that can be a blessing or a curse. But I'm fine with it. Because at the end of the day, I'm still working, and I'm enjoying what I do.

The most important thing for me as an artist is having an identity.

Of course I'm schooled in the old school method: taking what I think the director wants, then reworking it through my own brain and heart.

I understand it for marketing purposes, but I've always hated defining myself with a genre. Nothing feels broad enough.

Films should involve a director's idiosyncrasies as much as possible I think.

I think every filmmaker has his way of working, and I respect that.

In f(x), when I'm doing K-pop, that's cool - that's our concept. But me, as a solo artist, I'm just me. I'm gonna wear my jeans, my Jordans, and I'm just gonna be a little stupid on stage.

When I can make music and don't have to think about anyone else's ideas or voice - when I'm making something that only I can make - it feels good. It's nice when you can find a sound that only you can make. No one else can make 'Cosmogramma.' No one else can make 'Until the Quiet Comes.'

I want to be my own artist and reflect my creativity.. I don't want to be turned into a pop princess; that's not who I am.

No one's telling Tarantino what to do. You might like it or you might not like it, but the reality is he's getting his own vision out there.

The reason why everything I do is so different is not because I'm trying to be provocative; it's simply a reflection of whatever was happening to me at the time I wrote that particular record.

You make art, you make it from what you know, and that's the best way to make art. You get lost in the details and make something that feels like it's yours.

As a filmmaker, if your personality is not reflected in your movies, then what are you doing, why are you making films?

Sheryl Crow. I loved her 'Tuesday Night Music Club.' She expressed her own point of view, and she wasn't trying to be like anyone else, and I loved that. That's been the thinking of all my favorite artists.

It's really tough to make a name for yourself without compromising and without fitting yourself into a real specific mold. When I made the choice that I would be involved in every aspect of music and not necessarily make music for radio or MTV, I was saying, 'OK, this is me. You decide who it is.'

I'm very rarely interested in genres. As long as I feel I can put my DNA out there in the ideology, it works for me.

I don't want to direct a movie as good as Antonioni, or Kubrick, or Polanski, or whoever. I want it to be my own. I think I've got the seed of it and, what's more, that I can make movies that are different and informed by my taste.

Don't worry about trying to develop a style. Style is what you can't help doing. If you write enough, you draw enough, you'll have a style, whether you want it or not. Don't worry about whether you're "commercial". Tell your own stories, draw your own pictures. Let other people follow you.