Takashi Miike Quotes

I had a great time working on the movies, both the major movies I've done. I've had a great time. I like the people in Hollywood a lot.

When I came out to Hollywood, I discovered the perfect place for my creative madness - Cannon Pictures.

Big feature films are another world.

It's a good time to be making movies, despite the cynicism people have about Hollywood.

The more I see of the movie business, the less I understand about it. I have no idea what goes on with that stuff.

Hollywood is a deeply odd place. There are so many factors that have to go perfectly, so many schedules and visions that have to snap together for a film even to be made, much less be good.

Research can be interesting, but it can be pointless as well. The realities of making a movie often are not conducive with that. I'm not knocking it. I love doing research myself, but I admit it doesn't always add to the performance.

I've grown up around cinema. Michael Kamen was a very, very close friend of mine, sort of my godfather. So I know how much work goes into it. You have to know what you're doing.

Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking.

It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies.

'Butch Cassidy' was the only film I ever enjoyed making.

When it comes to turning out movies, I'm for Hollywood.

I loved being behind the scenes and finding out how they make movies.

I think what Hollywood has done for so long, is make movies for themselves.

It's hard work making movies. It's like being a doctor: you work long hours, very hard hours, and it's emotional, tense work. If you don't really love it, then it ain't worth it.

The mecca of filmmaking in the world just so happens to be in America. It's quite simply a case of us just going where the work is.

I love making movies.

Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.

I just love being on a movie set. I like making movies.

I learned that getting a movie made in Hollywood is a near impossibility, and the process can be a wild adventure. TV is a lot more consistently productive - no offense to the beautiful world of feature film.

In Hollywood, they create banks of scripts, whether they are used or not.

I just make movies and hope people appreciate them.

Over in Hollywood they almost made a great picture, but they caught it in time.

Well, this movie I've been working on for a while. I had the idea for the movie like twenty years ago when I was doing 'Empire of the Sun' in 1987 because at that time that's when all these Vietnam movies were being made and my friends and I were going on auditions for these Vietnam movies and my friends were getting them and going away to fake boot camps.

I'm never critical or judgmental about whether or not a movie is any good. The way I look at it, if several hundred people got together every day for a year or so - a number of then willing to put on heavy makeup, wear clothes that weren't their own and pretend to be people other than themselves - and their whole purpose for doing all this was to entertain me, then I'm not gonna start worrying about whether or not they did a good job. The effort alone was enough to make me happy.