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.

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

The power of Hollywood, as we know, is that it can create these images in people's minds, and they live with those images for their whole life.

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.

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.