Quotes About Japanese

There aren't many American directors here trying to direct a Japanese yakuza film. When you combine that with the fact that I don't speak much Japanese and this was an independent film I was financing myself - people were curious about what I was doing.

Unless it's done superbly, as in the Japanese film Gate of Hell, color can be a very distracting element.

Since my Japanese isn't very good, I had to have an interpreter to communicate with most of the crew.

Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they had attacked us there with six carriers, three battleships, 10 or 15 cruisers, and about 20 destroyers.

Of course, when it comes to Japanese role-playing games, in any role-playing game in Japan you're supposed to collect a huge number of items, and magic, and you've got to actually combine different items together to make something really different.

I've got lots of weird illustrations of me from Japanese fans.

Here's the irony in what I do: When I go out to eat, I like classic French food. I like amazing Japanese food that has such a history that it goes back hundreds of years. And I also like really innovative food as well.

Japanese are very proud and workaholics. Proud workaholics.

I think Japanese audiences are much more attentive than a London audience.

Growing up in California, I obviously knew about our deep connections with the Japanese.

In Japan, I am famous in certain special circles - mainly as someone who is trying to break down and enlighten the conventions of Japanese art.

I really like the look of old '70s and '80s Japanese comics, so I think that style is something I will continue to draw.

The Japanese press likes me a lot, but the problem is the Japanese government. It's very bureaucratic.

What resonates culturally with me about Japanese style is that it is very covered up but very sensual.

I am an admirer of haiku, and I'm a great admirer of Japanese literature in general.

I'm a huge, huge lover of weaponry, of Japanese martial arts movies.

I just really, really love food, so I don't have a favourite. But if I had to pick one to eat every day, it would be Italian. But I also love Chinese and Japanese food.

I would like to know more about how to cook Japanese food. I love it, but don't know much about it.

The fans, man, the fans have a little different way of thinking. They really applaud the spirit of fighters, and that put a huge influence on the type of energy I fought with, rather than if I won or lost. America's a real win-or-lose culture, where with the Japanese, fighting with spirit is enough.

I think that as a Chinese person, nobody will forget that in China's history, there was a war against the Japanese.

It is extremely interesting to live in a private house and to see the externalities, at least, of domestic life in a Japanese middle-class home.

Perhaps the writer I've read the most of is Haruki Murakami, the Japanese writer, but I wouldn't necessarily say he's a favourite. I read him because I find his work so intriguing, but I don't necessarily feel I would follow this writer to the ends of the earth.

I've been lucky: my Japanese genes - from my mother's side - and a lifelong moisturising routine have helped keep me looking good.

I never thought fashion was the job for me, because I'm Japanese. Clothes! That was a European, society thing.