American comedies about Asians have never been funny to me. That always kind of pissed me off.

There's one thing about weights with action movies: Once your muscles get that tight, it's sometimes hard to stop your movement, especially if you're trying to move with some strength, and with the swords in the film.

Americans really don't understand the Japanese nature, but it's not an easy thing to understand.

In fact, I think new media is going to make a big difference with injecting more people of color into Hollywood and non-Hollywood.

Kids keep getting wiser younger, which is dangerous, and adults need to stop taking themselves too seriously.

Half my family was from the Imperial Japanese Navy, and the other half was U.S. Army, and I was raised on Army posts during my childhood, so I pretty much began my life with a split-brain sort of thing.

My major intention for coming to Hollywood - besides the fact that I was just enamored with acting from a very young age - was that I was tired of seeing wimpy Asian actors.