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.

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.

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

You can't just replace someone with a regular-looking guy who didn't say any of the lines.

That's the worst thing for an actor: when you say to someone, "Yeah, I was in that movie," and they say, "You were?"

The power and depth of Japanese acting certainly inspired me, so I was determined that Hollywood was going to get a taste of that, that Americans were going to get a taste of Japanese action.

When you start working on a series, it's almost too much work. It's like a movie a week.