Kitano Quotes

#1. The contemporary Japanese directors who are well-known in the West - say, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Takeshi Kitano, Naomi Kawase - are mostly unknown to Japanese, particularly of the younger generation.

Hirokazu Koreeda

#2. I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people for free.

Takeshi Kitano

#3. You have made an empty place within me; and I must try to fill it up with something - with something that is a little like love.

Henrik Ibsen

#4. I intentionally shoot violence to make the audience feel real pain. I have never and I will never shoot violence as if it's some kind of action video game.

Takeshi Kitano

#5. prayerful dependence on the grace of Jesus is our only refuge from our own sin.

Timothy J. Keller

#6. I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not that I'm good at everything but because I'm not good at any of these things.

Takeshi Kitano

#7. The thing about art for me is that you can go on theorising your work forever, because it's open to interpretation.

Takeshi Kitano

#8. I thought maybe I could become like the next Van Gogh. I bought a sunflower and painted it, and it looked like the work of a 6-year-old.

Takeshi Kitano

#9. I keep my eyes on the sea, waiting to be rocketed into it on a wave of fire. I'll be ready for it to happen and that way it won't happen. It's a burden, being able to control situations with my hyper-vigilance, but its my lot in life.

Tina Fey

#10. All the darkness in the world can't put out the light of one candle.

Confucius

#11. Sword fighting in film is not about how good the fighter is, but how good the actor receiving the blows is.

Takeshi Kitano

#12. One might say my life has been tragic. Yet, as I sat in pain in the hospital I raised my tired hands toward the sky, palms facing in, fingers spread, and I gave thanks.

Abeba Habtu

#13. On the other hand, dogs eat with gusto, play with exuberance, work happily when given the opportunity, surrender themselves to the wonder and the mystery of their world, and love extravagantly.

Dean Koontz

#14. If Nixon were a Republican senator today, he would have been primaried out.

Harry Shearer

#15. One thing I hate in movies is when the camera starts circling around the characters. I find that totally fake.

Takeshi Kitano

#16. The film is ambiguous, an ambiguity that reflects on Japan today, and a world in which nothing is clear. Once I made the film, I realized it was about this feeling of vague disquiet in Japan and in the rest of the world, a feeling that is gaining on us, getting less vague.

Takeshi Kitano

#17. I don't really expect much from my life. So when I heard my films are premiering in film festival circuits I was glad of course but I thought it was lucky accident.

Takeshi Kitano

#18. Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets.

Takeshi Kitano

#19. For me comedy and violence has a lot in common. Just as you expect, comedy always lurks behind the most unexpected of circumstances.

Takeshi Kitano

#20. here I am simply trying to get into your head
you think you were born you die what a pity

Ikkyu

#21. The baby, when he or she is ready to be born,
will send a message that tells the mother's body that it is ready.
The mother's body can then begin labour by slowly releasing oxytocin, the hormone of love.
The mother and baby work together to bring the baby into the world.

Ruth Ehrhardt

#22. When people tell me I'm an artist, I say, 'What?' It's impossible for me to take the idea seriously.

Takeshi Kitano

#23. My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!

Takeshi Kitano

#24. I always come to conclusions very fast. Well, that is one way of thinking, and the other way would be that I lack the necessary perseverance to stick to one thing that really fits me. I don't know if it's a good thing or bad thing.

Takeshi Kitano

#25. Ana, you make me ache in places that aren't even physical.

Jodi Meadows

#26. Each minute wasted with a shark is a missed opportunity to enjoy being with a Dolphin

Miguel Reynolds Brandao