Takashi Miike Quotes

I was fortunate that I was born in an era where comic books kind of grew up with me.

I was an avid anime watcher until I was about 10, when I moved to manga. I think I am influenced by Osamu Tezuka's and Walt Disney's works which I watched during that time, such as Tetsuwan Atom and 101 Dalmatians.

I didn't see a lot of comic books growing up.

I've always loved hip-hop, since I was a kid, that's the music that I loved. I think everyone of our generation kind of fantasized about hip-hop in some ways.

There was a manga boom, so I read 'Astro Boy,' 'Osomatsu-kun,' and such. But what influenced me the most were things like 'Popeye' and Disney animation.

I grew up listening to everybody.

I was raised hearing music everywhere I went.

Movies were the biggest influence on me when I was a kid.

Growing up I never got into comic books at all. I didn't have any inspiration for it.

I didn't read comics, growing up. I watched a lot of movies, and those were my comic books. And then, my exposure really increased by becoming affiliated with Spider-Man.

I didn't really grow up a comic book fanatic.

I never read comic books as a kid.

I've got Disney blood running through my veins.

Comics? Honestly, that's more a matter of nostalgia for me. I think most of that energy has gone to my love of literature and my love of film.

I've always had a soft spot for comic books. I learned to read from them. The words in them were so interesting.

I was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion.

Every generation of children has its private hero.

My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.

I noticed in the late 1990s that my friends and I were already nostalgic for the 1980s, and by the turn of the century, VH1's 'I Love the '80s' gave all of us an accelerated nostalgia for our generation.

I was into comic books as a kid.

Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.

Television was essentially my college.

I am a huge fan of 'Batman'. As a kid watching it, there are certain things that I'm not going to latch onto as much as when I've gotten older.

My mom lives in New York still in the home that I grew up in.

Growing up in my household with seven women, I'd hear all types of music.