Takashi Miike Quotes

Doing the podcast, the whole reason to do it is just because I can do whatever I want.

One of the advantages of not having a record contract is that you can make your own mistakes, you don't need somebody else to organize them for you.

I'm spoiled. All of my adult jobs have left me with complete freedom to come up with what I wanted.

It's been exciting to be able to go forward with stuff without 10,000 people saying, It should be like this.

I enjoy total creative control right now. Nobody tells me to make it longer, shorter, better, sexier, more violent, whatever.

I can really write what I want. I can take time; I can do nothing for a year. That is paradise.

I like to be as free as possible at all times.

I really have to feel a sense of freedom in my storytelling.

I am the freest author in the world.

I think with animation there's a certain freedom that you're given. You don't have a thought at the back of your mind, that worry that you'll have to cut and go back to the top of the scene. You're not working with anyone else from the cast. It's just you.

I don't want to be owned by a corporation and obliged to make a certain type of album. I want to be free.

I've been lucky enough to have had the luxury of being able to make the picture I've wanted to make each time on my own terms and without compromise.

My art side is free and there are no strings attached.

The way I define what I do is, basically, I do whatever I want.

I'm a late-night host that doesn't want to be tied down by time or television or even hosting.

I just pretty much do what I want to do.

From a creative perspective, we've been very fortunate in that doing it the 'VGHS' way gave us unlimited freedom. Whatever we wanted to do, however we wanted to do it, we had that.

I am comfortable doing independent music; it gives me more freedom as an artiste.

I couldn't be an artist who was told what to do, what to be, what to sing.

I'm glad that in this sport you can write your own stories, and you don't have to worry about what other people expect out of you.

In my first label Shrapnel Records I wasn't expected to do anything except the creative music that I wanted to do. I was my own boss, which is great.

I just want to feel free. If someone feels inspired by it, then fine.

In terms of having to uphold something, I don't need any added pressure. I need to be free in the work.

Weezer isn't stuck in roles, so we just do what we want to do, what makes us excited.