Best quotes by Takashi Miike on Life

Checkout quotes by Takashi Miike on Life

• ‟ I believe that when people try to live their life at the fullest, there's a certain laughter that comes out of it. The more they try to live their life seriously, the funnier it is.

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• ‟ For better or worse, I refuse to live my life with regret. Sometimes, I'll look back on my past mistakes with fondness. But I never wished I wouldn't have made them. That's why I don't like re-takes.

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• ‟ Pleasure can also be a mirror of the anxiety we feel in everyday life, it can have a message inside.

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• ‟ That's a very Japanese idea - that children are an extension of their parents. And that when you're reborn, your new form reflects the sins of your previous life - you can't escape.

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• ‟ Boxing is a metaphor for hitting back and showing you can win in life.

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• ‟ Live life before making movies, because you cannot make films about life, without having lived one.

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• ‟ We have this desire for that balance between death and life or death and joy. We want to believe that something we can also have.

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• ‟ I honestly do feel like the Yakuza film genre is going away. And I don't personally feel like there's any meaning in trying to artificially extend the life of the Yakuza film genre.

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• ‟ Japanese of my generation try to get through life without stepping on anyone's toes; in some ways that's unnatural and stressful. The yakuza are different: They live short lives but live and die on their own terms - it's exciting to portray that.

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• ‟ Actually the hardest films to make are comedies. In normal life, funny things happen by accident; to re-create those by design in a film takes real technique.

  - Takashi Miike