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.

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

Before I started studying martial arts, I had temper problems. I could definitely fly off the handle. Being raised in the south in 1956 definitely gave me some memories to latch onto for negative emotions.

I really believe that breath, in and of itself can become the ultimate self-healing tool.

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