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

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.

I have to humbly say people really like the bad guys.

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.

I don't know if many people realize that Dolph Lundgren is a chemical engineer. He's not a dumb blond guy. This guy is smart and he's a martial artist.

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