Back in the Bruce Lee era, and in my era, Kung-Fu stirred up a kind of frenzy, and many people were learning martial arts from us. But about a decade ago, Hollywood began bringing in a number of our action choreographers, including two from my own stunt crew, where they became martial arts directors. Now, a decade later, Hollywood has learned it all, so when you look at the action films they're making now, they all use our action, our martial arts, and then add to that their own technology which is ten times better than ours, and it has to leave us dumbfounded: how did they film that?

American movies show you how to fight and break armsand necks. I want to make the action in my movies like dancing.

I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama.

Honestly, every movie I do in America, the only challenge for me is English. I've done everything already, for me it's pretty easy. Only the English.

I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences.

When I'm in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself 'why?'

I play a nobody in Japan.