24 Quotes by Takeshi Kitano

I don't really expect much from my life. So when I heard my films are premiering in film festival circuits I was glad of course but I thought it was lucky accident.

The thing about art for me is that you can go on theorising your work forever, because it's open to interpretation.

My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!

One thing I hate in movies is when the camera starts circling around the characters. I find that totally fake.

After all, cinema has been around for more than a century. There are many great masters. I feel like doing a very classical movie now, to challenge the giants.

I want the spectators to feel like they are in another dimension of reality. I don't want my audience to understand every detail,

The film is ambiguous, an ambiguity that reflects on Japan today, and a world in which nothing is clear. Once I made the film, I realized it was about this feeling of vague disquiet in Japan and in the rest of the world, a feeling that is gaining on us, getting less vague.

I believe you shouldn't force the audience's interpretation of a character or a story. The more you explain things, the less intriguing and imaginable they are for viewers. . . . Film to me, in its essence, in its ultimate nature, is silent. Music and dialogue are there to fill what is lacking in the image. But you should be able to tell the story with moving pictures alone. For my next project, though, I'd like to make the kind of film where the characters blabber all the time.

I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not that I’m good at everything but because I’m not good at any of these things.