Quotes by Takeshi Kitano - Page 1

My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!
Takeshi Kitano / Film Director
Failure
Careers
Film
Repetition
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When people tell me I'm an artist, I say, 'What?' It's impossible for me to take the idea seriously.
Takeshi Kitano / Film Director
Artist
Ideas
Impossible
People
Impossible Me People
Me Impossible People
Seriously
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Sword fighting in film is not about how good the fighter is, but how good the actor receiving the blows is.
Takeshi Kitano / Film Director
Fighting
Receiving
Blows
Sword
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One thing I hate in movies is when the camera starts circling around the characters. I find that totally fake.
Takeshi Kitano / Film Director
Character
Fake
Fake People
Hate
Totally
Camera
Circling
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The thing about art for me is that you can go on theorising your work forever, because it's open to interpretation.
Takeshi Kitano / Film Director
Art
Forever
Goes On
Interpretation
Work Art Me
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I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people for free.
Takeshi Kitano / Film Director
Giving
Joy
Paint
People
Sheer
Sold
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Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets.
Takeshi Kitano / Film Director
Humour
Unpredictable
Violence
Come
Both
Gets
Unexpectedly
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My philosophy is that one shall not resort to violence unless one is resolved to become the subject of violence at any time.
Takeshi Kitano / Film Director
Philosophy
Resorts
Violence
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For me comedy and violence has a lot in common. Just as you expect, comedy always lurks behind the most unexpected of circumstances.
Takeshi Kitano / Film Director
Circumstances
Comedy
Common
Unexpected
Violence
Always Me Unexpected
Behind
Expect
Me Comedy Always
Lurks
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I thought maybe I could become like the next Van Gogh. I bought a sunflower and painted it, and it looked like the work of a 6-year-old.
Takeshi Kitano / Film Director
Next
Sunflower
Years
Bought
Gogh
Painted
Van
Van Gogh
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I think I am more of a coward than anybody. It's a very weird feeling. The more I fear violence, the more I'm inclined to depict it in films.
Takeshi Kitano / Film Director
Coward
Feelings
Thinking
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I intentionally shoot violence to make the audience feel real pain. I have never and I will never shoot violence as if it's some kind of action video game.
Takeshi Kitano / Film Director
Games
Pain
Real
Real Pain
Video
Intentionally
Video Game
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Being a TV comedian, actor, writer, columnist, and all that is quite helpful to me in acquiring wide varieties of knowledge, which is crucial for filmmaking.
Takeshi Kitano / Film Director
Actors
Comedian
Tvs
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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.
Takeshi Kitano / Film Director
Festivals
Film
Glad
Lucky
Accident
Life My Life Much
Festival
Film Festival
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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.
Takeshi Kitano / Film Director
Comedy
Painting
Writing
Activities
Films
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I hate seeing people getting hurt or hurting other people. I hate seeing blood. I am very intolerant of physical pain. I find violence horrifying, so much so that I can't help being intrigued by it.
Takeshi Kitano / Film Director
Hate
Hurt
Pain
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I always come to conclusions very fast. Well, that is one way of thinking, and the other way would be that I lack the necessary perseverance to stick to one thing that really fits me. I don't know if it's a good thing or bad thing.
Takeshi Kitano / Film Director
Perseverance
Thinking
Way
Good Thinking Me
Bad Thing
Conclusions
Fits
Good Thing
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Eventually, this is how I would like to be remembered at the end of my career: He was never the best in anything he did - comedy, acting, filmmaking, writing, etc. But nobody was better at doing different things at the same time than he was.
Takeshi Kitano / Film Director
Acting
Careers
Writing
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Cinema is a composite art into which you can include all conceivable art or entertainment forms. In film, I can work with novelistic elements, comedy, drama, music, and other forms of entertainment. Film is a versatile expression, combining all elements into one art form.
Takeshi Kitano / Film Director
Art
Drama
Expression
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The film is ambiguous, an ambiguity that reflects on Japan today, and a world in which nothing is clear. Once I made the film [Takeshis'], 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.
Takeshi Kitano / Film Director
Feelings
Japan
World
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I think my way of showing violence is unique from that of other filmmakers, in that when I show it, it hurts. It happens unexpectedly and looks painful. That's how it is in real life, and that's how it should be expressed. I don't glamorize it, nor do I depict it without necessity or inevitability.
Takeshi Kitano / Film Director
Hurt
Real
Unique
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In people's minds, I'm a comic, so it took a lot of time before I was recognized as a director. I had to be patient until the public accepted me. As a result, my early films didn't get a lot of attention. As a serious film actor, things didn't take off, either. Only my comic talents were recognized.
Takeshi Kitano / Film Director
Directors
Mind
People
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Doing TV shows helps me a lot in my screenplay writing and filmmaking, especially since my TV shows are in different formats: comedy sketches, talk shows, debate programs, art variety shows, quiz shows. These enable me to meet interesting people with interesting stories and to learn about interesting subjects, all of which I can reflect into film.
Takeshi Kitano / Film Director
Art
Tv Shows
Writing
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Having total freedom to direct my own movies is more difficult than those I was hired for, where the framework has been already furnished. Unlike with my own work, I don't have to deny or feel embarrassed at the straightforwardness or orthodoxy of the directorial style, because I can say in excuse, "This is how I was asked to direct by those people."
Takeshi Kitano / Film Director
Orthodoxy
People
Style
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Comparing filmmaking to a plastic model, shooting is the process where you mold and color each piece, and editing is where you build a finished whole from the pieces you molded and colored. Obviously, the latter is the most enjoyable part in the making of plastic models, so editing is the process in filmmaking I enjoy the most. But at the same time, editing can be a painstaking task, too.
Takeshi Kitano / Film Director
Color
Editing
Mold
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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.
Takeshi Kitano / Film Director
Believe
Character
Moving
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