"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."

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Source : "Takeshi Kitano: Silent superstar" by Dean Irvine, edition.cnn.com. October 23, 2008.

Takeshi Kitano

#Writing Quotes #Comedy Quotes #Painting Quotes

“The worldâ€™s biggest problem is the unequal distribution of capitalism. If there were capitalism everywhere, you wouldnâ€™t have food shortages.”
“America is the greatest country in the world - I love America. What I've accomplished could not have been done anywhere else.”
“Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him.”
“Count your blessings. Every time I am doing bad I count my blessings. And I always lose count. Try that sometime.”
“If anything, Calvin Klein is the iconic company in terms of fashion. They do have iconic images for their campaigns.”

Source : "Djimon Hounsou ‘Never Back Down’". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. March 11, 2008.
“And more than anything, I like the improvisation of jazz. That's the same thing with DJ-ing. There's so much improvisation you can do with cuttin' and scratchin' that's reminiscent of jazz music, because it's all about how you feel. You're capturing a vibe and just going with it.”
“There are [in Hollywood] some endemic problems and some things that happen over and over again. There's the problem of representation of basically anybody but white men. These are things that we talk about a lot in contemporary culture, and it's interesting to me to go look at film history from the perspective of today.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“It is not often that the real world conjures worse than what we can imagine.”

Source : Alison Goodman (2011). “Eona”, p.287, Penguin

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