Takashi Miike Quotes

You cannot change what you are, only what you do.

It's taken me a long time to realize that my own life is far more interesting than any part I'll ever play.

The older I get, the more I embrace my own idiosyncrasies.

To explore different parts of yourself and different emotional lives... not to hide from who you are but to actually explore who you are.

Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature.

There are different sides to me; I wanted to make a personal film but I would not want to make any film that does not reflect me in it. At least, not right now. I'm just too young to be doing that.

I'll never be August Wilson - but what I can be is more of myself.

I don't mind finding these ugly sides to my personality and exaggerating them because that's something you can write towards.

You can't form a character without being completely comfortable with who you are as a person.

I feel it's important to show that one thing that you do doesn't define you as a human being. It doesn't mean there aren't ramifications or you shouldn't pay for that but its not who you are.

In the end I'm the only one who knows me.

I wrote an episode for 'thirtysomething,' and a producer said, 'That's really good, but what is it about? What does it say about you? What questions are you asking yourself?' I had never thought about that. This comment changed who I was, because it made me look at my own soul, the dark corners in my soul, and accept that dark side.

I've had a very specific path over the years. Sometimes they're not all we want them to be, but they create who we are.

I don't feel I have to be Jackson Browne. Still, I like to say something.

You cannot force somebody to be a different person.

I think, personally, it's our flaws that define us to us - or maybe it's just me.

The best comics enlist you to take accountability for who you are, whether you like it or not.

Chiron is so distant from the person I am; it's important for me to distance myself from that so people can understand that was the character. Hopefully, I'll find another opportunity that allows me to stretch like that again.

I think all of us make the mistake of thinking we're going to change people when we get together. But we're not. People are who they are. And people change in their own time.

I think the better you know yourself as a person, the better an actor you can be.

Meg, I give you your faults." "My faults!" Meg cried. "Your faults." "But I'm always trying to get rid of my faults!" "Yes," Mrs. Whatsit said. "However, I think you'll find they'll come in very handy on Camazotz.

You're who you think you are, even if you never admit it to yourself or to anyone else. You may be in the worst position to judge, but you're in the best position to know.

We're all cracked vessels, and we're always in process, I think, every one of us.

I'm really excited to act again because when I started out, there was an innocent sort of perception of the world that was coming though me, and I think now through a lot of experience and life and understanding, I've come full circle to having a purer response to things. So my craft will be really interesting to work from this place because I think acting is about being in tune with yourself - or maybe the struggle to be in tune with yourself.