100 Quotes by Takashi Miike

As a film-maker, it's only natural to feel happy about new possibilities opening up.

Originally, I was an assistant director. For many people in that role, becoming a director is the ultimate goal. But, in my case, that wasn't my goal at all. I just had fun doing it. The schedule was hard, but I enjoyed it greatly so I just kept at it.

I felt that all of us working on our remake of '13 Assassins' had to honour the original director, Eiichi Kudo, and everyone else who created the original.

Even if I were to try to imitate Kurosawa I know that it's absolutely impossible. That era of film was just something else, including the actors. Everything about that era was on a completely different level.

I personally wouldn't pay money to go watch a really scary movie!

One Missed Call' was one of many J-horror films at that time.

For a long time I was free. I didn't belong to any type of studio, or any company. I kept a sort of freedom and a light touch.

I loved spaghetti westerns but besides these pure entertainment movies, there was also something different.

You could not imitate Fellini. His beauty was above anything else, but that intelligence was typically Italian. This helped me to realise that I had to create something that was distinctively Japanese.