There are a lot of wannabe men in Hollywood. But when you have that Hollywood mentality, there aren't a lot of real, grounded people.

I've been in a lot of cult movies, but I've been very fortunate to have been involved in projects that people remember.

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

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

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.

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.

Playing Japanese characters and being in environments that are Japanese, like a character's apartment or whatever, if you have directors or art directors who just don't know what' s what with Japanese culture, then pretty soon something's just passed through. I've been through many times where I've pointed out the incorrectness of so much of what's been done to a set.