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“Some people have iconic directors in their mind, or they want to make particular styles of films they have seen before. I think this is a waste of time and energy.”
“I think everyone really wants to just be happy and live the life that they want to live. But they come up against all of these obstacles and sometimes the way that react we react to that can be very hilarious. To me. It's hilarious and laughable.”
“I am like any other human being; I am full of different sides.”
“Once I started working as an assistant director, I just realized very quickly that working on a film set was just a perfect fit for me.”
“For the birth of one champion, there are many young boxers behind them who had setbacks. In terms of that, I think boxing is very dramatic.”
“I do not proactively approach Hollywood, but also I do not always turn down offers. But since I'm living as a movie director, I have a desire to shoot something like 'This is a Hollywood movie!' at least once in my lifetime.”
“I'm actually quite a scaredy cat, myself.”
“The directors whose films scare me the most, are the ones who carefully hide the aggression in the background, and don't show it directly.”
“I actually think women are stronger and more capable than men, that men are actually dancing in the palms of women, who are running the show.”
“I guess, in a sense, 'Audition' was a film that gave me an opportunity that I hadn't had up until that point. So that's definitely one that is important to me. Then there's 'Visitor Q' that kind of taught me that there are some kinds of films that can only be made as low-budget films that really wouldn't work as anything else.”
“Kurosawa was truly inventive.”
“My style is that I have no style.”
“Personally, I enjoy being able to see something that you haven't seen before.”
“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.”
“The position of an assistant director in Japan is a handyman who does everything if necessary. They must overcome the unreasonable demands of hard-hearted and whimsical directors, and staff with different personalities or habits.”
“Manga, as a medium, is very different from cinema. Its creators are free to express themselves with harsh, cruel stories, and they enjoy vast distribution throughout Japan.”
“I wanted to make '13 Assassins' in the old manner, to use old techniques and not to rely on modern-day ones such as CGI, or editing that changes the speed.”
“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.”
“I myself have always had that secret desire to become something completely different and enact revenge on certain things. So I do that through my movies. My desires become reality in the movie because it can't become real in real life.”
“People tell all sorts of lies in order to live. That enables friendships to form and love to blossom.”