I try not to cry, in general. The experience of crying is so emotional and uncomfortable for me that I don't like to go there.

My ideal travel companions are my family.

I don't want to end up being a circus act, doing my most famous tricks when I'm 70.

That which makes you different is actually the thing that makes you special.

I'm like most people. We just concentrate on the present. I live right where the film is going through the film projector and it hits the light.

Failure hurts pretty bad. But when you got good people around you they remind you that failure is actually just a lesson. It's how not to walk so you don't fall again.

I have an all-Japanese design team, and none of them speak English. So it's often funny and surprising how my ideas end up lost in translation.