"I think the reason why I have so many movies to my credit is that I never say no to any project, I never veto anything. I sort of challenge myself to do stuff, even if it's something that I've never done before."

--

Takashi Miike

#Thinking Quotes #Challenges Quotes #Credit Quotes

“[The English] find ill-health not only interesting but respectable and often experience death in the effort to avoid a fuss.”
“An Ambitious woman shewes her selfe to bee a troublesome disturber of the world, powerfull to make smale things great, and great monstrous”

Source : "The Just Downfall of Ambition, Adultery and Murder" by Thomas Overbury,
“When you drive by Radio City and you see your name up there and it's only 'your' name. I just went 'ooh'. I thought this is really like looking at another person.”
“I'm a proud person who happens to be deaf. I don't want to change it. I don't want to wake up and suddenly say, 'Oh my God, I can hear.' That's not my dream. It's not my dream. I've been raised deaf. I'm used to the way I am. I don't want to change it. Why would I ever want to change? Because I'm used to this, I'm happy.”
“That's an important lesson for me, to not qualify my experience against somebody else's. My experience is the experience that I wanted to have, and have created for myself, but it doesn't make me any more deserving than anybody else - or less.”

Source : Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. February 11, 2003.
“If you grow up where a snow mountain lifts its proud crown on the home horizon, in some strange way it becomes a member of the family.”
“Donald Trump is seriously dark and disturbing. You can't just dismiss it as one more example of American pop culture grotesque.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I don't hold myself dictated to by what everyone is saying, by the tabloids or popular opinion. I don't like bourgeois values. I say you find your own way to live.”

Source : "James Salter: The Greatest Writer You've Never Read" by Alex Bilmes, www.esquire.com. June 21, 2015.

You may also like:

Akira Kurosawa
Film director
Kim Ki-duk
Filmmaker
Park Chan-wook
Film director
Smiley Blanton
Author
Tadanobu Asano
Actor
Takeshi Kitano
Film director
Yusuke Kishi
Author
Christian Karlsson
Pontus Winnberg