Takeshi Kitano
Takeshi Kitano
Takeshi Kitanois a Japanese comedian, television personality, director, actor, author, and screenwriter. While he is known primarily as a comedian and TV host in his native Japan, abroad he is known exclusively for his filmwork. With the exception of his works as a film director, he is known almost exclusively by the stage name Beat Takeshi...
NationalityJapanese
ProfessionActor
Date of Birth18 January 1947
CountryJapan
audience dimension spectators understand
I want the spectators to feel like they are in another dimension of reality. I don't want my audience to understand every detail,
blows fighter good receiving
Sword fighting in film is not about how good the fighter is, but how good the actor receiving the blows is.
challenge cinema classical great
After all, cinema has been around for more than a century. There are many great masters. I feel like doing a very classical movie now, to challenge the giants.
japan feelings world
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.
perseverance thinking way
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.
violence unexpected common
For me comedy and violence has a lot in common. Just as you expect, comedy always lurks behind the most unexpected of circumstances.
violence humour unpredictable
Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets.
giving people joy
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.
years sunflower next
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.
art forever goes-on
The thing about art for me is that you can go on theorising your work forever, because it's open to interpretation.
artist ideas people
When people tell me I'm an artist, I say, 'What?' It's impossible for me to take the idea seriously.
festivals lucky film
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.
fake-people hate character
One thing I hate in movies is when the camera starts circling around the characters. I find that totally fake.
writing comedy painting
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.