To all the musicians, to the Academy, with all due respect, reggaeton is part of our Latin culture. And its representing as much as any other genre at the worldwide level.
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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.
To all the musicians, to the Academy, with all due respect, reggaeton is part of our Latin culture. And its representing as much as any other genre at the worldwide level.
Anyone who regards poetry as an entertainment, as a 'read,' commits an anthropological crime, in the first place against himself.
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold
You don't get music in your daily life, do you? Even in a movie, it's unnatural to have music. I always feel it's unnatural. But I want to make it not unnatural, to construct reality in another sense.
I've tried a few times to depart from what I know I can do, and I've failed. I've tried to work outside the studio, but it introduces too many variables that I can't control. I'm really quite narrow, you know.
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