I have to humbly say people really like the bad guys.

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

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

There were times when I purposely didn't go to school because of Pearl Harbor Day, because certainly there was enough media about it every year to remind everybody. So when I heard they were going to make the movie, I thought, "Oh, no, please not another Pearl Harbor mention!"

I'm not a method actor, I don't write my character's history or all those kinds of things. I'm more about the 90 percent of the brain that is subconscious. I like to just pick certain pieces, let it soak in, and then let it kind of emerge out.

I was excited about working with Richard Gere. Oh, and Joan Allen! Oh, my God, she is such a force of nature, it's mind boggling.

Looking back at my career, if there's one word that most people use to describe me, it's intense.