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 have to humbly say people really like the bad guys.

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.

In every aspect of society, including business and anywhere that creativity can be used, we can be - or we used to be, anyway - the most innovative country, because we weren't restricted by artificial limitations. We are made to be wild, free, and creative, and this clearly was a symbol of that kind of energy in America.

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!"

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