Takashi Miike Quotes

I think film is the best medium to inspire people. It's a combination of image, dialogue, and music, which can make for a powerful message or a simple escape.

Film is the only language I speak, and I have been lucky to be involved in some great stories. You don't want to preach to people, but you want them to think about why things are the way they are, the history that is there as well as the possibilities.

A great byproduct of a TV show, movie, or play is when it can act as a catalyst for someone.

I'm interested in making films that make people think.

Cinema is not only about making people dream. It's about changing things and making people think.

I feel like what Director Bong is so amazing at is taking so many things and presenting them to you - never telling you how to think, but, if you leave the theater thinking something, we've done our jobs right.

Cinema is not just a medium of entertainment. Yes, it should entertain, but cinema is made to convey a message, to say something.

I personally think montages are one of movies' great gifts to everyone. I think they're so much fun and so effective when done right.

I love that theatre can be political. You can go watch a play; it sends out messages, and you can go away thinking differently to the way you thought about it before.

Cinema has a large scope as it is a mirror of society and with the mindset changing, people are taking it more seriously.

Filmmaking is essentially about entertainment, but it's amazing to realize that it has this other muscle that could actually help. Do you know what I mean? People permit entertainment to wash over them, but every once and a while, entertainment - and this is entertaining - also galvanizes something else and that would be a really good thing to have happen in this case.

Theater publicly reveals the human condition through appealing to both intellect and emotion. Architecture, whether lowly or exalted, can do the same.

I do not make movies to send any message, but my treatment makes my viewers think on the subject.

I think film is a very powerful advocate and message carrier.

I don't know any form of art or entertainment that can affect people the way movies can. I know it sounds ridiculous, but they can change your world. They can change your views.

As a media artist and filmmaker, I'm constantly considering the role of situational context when creating my work.

I wanted to make a film that was sophisticated and emotional, but for a wider audience.

I always feel in movies, I don't know if it's because I'm jaded, but I always feel like we don't go far enough.

If you have something to say, a movie is a really great medium to say it. It doesn't matter what the message is.

It could be sci-fi, love story, historical drama what counts for me is the fact that they're made by great directors with a great point of view who bring the audience to be elevated and at the same time entertained. That's what cinema is.

Cinema is a form of art, and like every other art form, cinema also needs freedom of expression.

Films are never meant as solutions; they just provide entertainment value.

I still go see films for entertainment, and I love them, but for me as a filmmaker, I really want to have a purpose in telling a story.

Art has the power to influence and to make you react to something that you normally wouldn't concern, worry, or even think about or wouldn't want to talk about.

It's extremely important that plays reflect contemporary times and should not just be about asking for social change without having any connect with the audience.