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

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.

Nature is a big part of my weekend. Whenever possible, I take Friday and Monday off and spend four days outdoors. We should remind ourselves that there was something here before us, a force more powerful than us.

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

There's one thing about weights with action movies: Once your muscles get that tight, it's sometimes hard to stop your movement, especially if you're trying to move with some strength, and with the swords in the film.

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

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.