Looking back at my career, if there's one word that most people use to describe me, it's intense.

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 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.

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

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

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.