Takashi Miike Quotes

I position everything else in my life around making movies.

I stopped acting a long time ago and my primary career has been producing-directing film.

A day on a film set is maddening.

I love to produce, and I've directed two short films.

I'd be happy doing anything on a film set.

I love the art of filmmaking very much in all aspects.

I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.

I was always interested in film, but I never knew how to go about becoming a filmmaker.

I try to do as much as I can, every facet of filmmaking.

I want to make stuff. I want to make movies and direct stuff and produce stuff and write stuff.

I think of making a movie in such a romantic way.

I like acting, but I like filmmaking better. I went to film school. I want to make films.

I want to go to film college to learn about the departments and how everything works. Then I'm going to start directing.

I had been trying to make movies, but they were really hard to get made. TV wound up, by surprise, a much more fulfilling place to work. That said, I've always been drawn to make movies.

I didn't really get involved too heavily with being an actual film person.

As a filmmaker, I'm a collaborator first.

It's one of the things I love about my job: it's my job to help a director tell the story, to just be willing to help.

You never know where your next movie is going to come from. You just have to fall in love with something because it's going to be taking up every moment of spare time in your life for about two years. You're going to be dreaming about it and thinking about it and becoming obsessed with it.

I definitely have always been interested in film and working in that, and I never actually thought that I'd be able to do it.

My first love was always direction; I had worked hard as a film-maker but not as an actor.

I like to produce my own movies.

Film work is a job I like to do because I really love to solve problems.

Do you know what I'm working on now? My first feature as a director.

I want to direct, produce, and write, learning as I go.

I wanna work; I love so much making films; I hope I can do one after the other. Being on set is what makes me happy, so... The more I can, the better.