“Eventually, this is how I would like to be remembered at the end of my career: He was never the best in anything he did - comedy, acting, filmmaking, writing, etc. But nobody was better at doing different things at the same time than he was.” WritingDifferentEndsActingCareersComedyRememberedEtcDifferent ThingsFilmmaking Author:Takeshi Kitano
“Doing TV shows helps me a lot in my screenplay writing and filmmaking, especially since my TV shows are in different formats: comedy sketches, talk shows, debate programs, art variety shows, quiz shows. These enable me to meet interesting people with interesting stories and to learn about interesting subjects, all of which I can reflect into film.” PeopleWritingArtI CanDifferentHelpingStoriesShowsFilmInterestingComedySubjectsTvsProgramDebateVarietyHelp MeFilmmakingTv ShowsScreenplaysFormatTalk ShowsInteresting StoriesQuizQuiz Show Author:Takeshi Kitano
“Cinema is a composite art into which you can include all conceivable art or entertainment forms. In film, I can work with novelistic elements, comedy, drama, music, and other forms of entertainment. Film is a versatile expression, combining all elements into one art form.” ArtI CanFilmFormComedyExpressionDramaElementsEntertainmentCinemaCombiningVersatileComposites Author:Takeshi Kitano
“For me comedy and violence has a lot in common. Just as you expect, comedy always lurks behind the most unexpected of circumstances.” CommonBehindsComedyViolenceCircumstancesUnexpected Author:Takeshi Kitano
“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.” WritingFilmComedyPaintingActivityVariousWriting Comedy Author:Takeshi Kitano
