I don't choose to make low-budget films. But that is the reality of surviving in the Japanese film industry. However, the trade off is, since we're working on small budgets, we have freedom. You can't buy this freedom with money. With this freedom, I think there are an infinite number of possibilities.
Interpretation
The quote expresses how working with limited resources allows for creative freedom in filmmaking.
Takashi Miike reflects on the constraints of low-budget filmmaking in Japan, highlighting how these limitations paradoxically provide a unique form of freedom that is invaluable. Rather than viewing low budgets as a disadvantage, he emphasizes the infinite creative possibilities that emerge from working within these constraints, suggesting that true artistic expression often flourishes in the face of challenges.
In practice
In discussions about independent films at a movie festival.
I was the first critic ever to win a Tony - for co-authoring 'Elaine Stritch at Liberty.' Criticism is a life without risk; the critic is risking his opinion, the maker is risking his life. It's a humbling thought but important for the critic to keep it in mind - a thought he can only know if he's made something himself.
Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt.
We hated Bauhaus. It was a bad time in architecture. They just didn’t have any talent. All they had were rules. Even for knives and forks they created rules. Picasso would never have accepted rules. The house is like a machine? No! The mechanical is ugly. The rule is the worst thing. You just want to break it.
In the future, a new generation of artists will be writing genomes as fluently as Blake and Byron wrote verses.
When you're writing a novel, you don't want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that. Reality simply consists of different points of view.
We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too. The tom-tom cries and the tom-tom laughs. If colored people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter either. We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.
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