Takashi Miike Quotes

We spend more time developing means of escaping our troubles than we do solving the troubles we're trying to escape from.

There is no problem so big it cannot be run away from.

When a problem threatens to engulf you, there's nothing like irrelevant detail to keep your head above water.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

You can't control all the crazy stuff that happens to you. All you can control is the way you handle it.

When you try to avoid the pain, it creates greater pain.

I actively avoided responsibility for as long as I possibly could.

The best way to cope with trouble is to stay out of it as much as possible.

Sometimes I'm stressed and I'm sick of things and I need to forget about them for a while, so in Harry Potter you're taken to this wonderful imaginary world where everything is so different.

I learned denial from my mother. I just never confronted things and if anybody did, I just would go crazy.

Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.

No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it.

No problem is too big to run away from.

Usually when I get nervous and don't know how to prepare for something, I just don't do anything at all, which is not necessarily the best idea.

To shun one's cross is to make it heavier.

It's been a pattern in my life - when I get in trouble, I try to get out of it, since I was little.

People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it.

Perhaps trying to move away from my problems and focus on the positive is the best I can do.

I can intellectualize myself out of anything.

Sometimes when things are way too big and I can't control it, I do sort of a weird thing where I kind of check out a little bit. It's all about self-preservation for me.

Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.

I think people, whether they realize they're doing it or not, seek out distractions to take their minds off what they know is bad behavior.

Competing pressures tempt one to believe that an issue deferred is a problem avoided. More often it is a crisis invited.

Avoidance has never been a great tactic in solving any problem. For most situations in life, not addressing what's going on only makes matters worse.

A sensitive person is seldom happy with the world the way it is. And since you cannot change it, you think, 'Might as well numb the anguish.' If you're using something to escape reality, then it's something you need to address.