I was trained as a straight dramatist..

There will always be nations. The United States will last a long, long time, I believe. France and Germany and Japan, China, other nations, they're g….

I love all of our subpodcasts..

Everything can draw inspiration: a vintage cloth, a book, a street-when I was in Japan, I was deeply inspired by Japanese pharmacies..

Much attention has been focused on the MMR shot itself, whereas in all probability it is a combination of the three factors listed above: the increas….

I don't act to live. I live to act..

Never be shamed of being Afrikan.

I never dreamed I would do Westerns..

I'll be honest, I never saw myself making a ninja movie, never entertained the idea. I think ninja films can be quite cheesy unless you do them in fe….

And that said, this [issues of comfort women] is important for reopening a conversation in both Japan and in Korea and on their respective understand….

The first comfort women didn't actually come forward until 1992, and since then, the issue has really been kicked up. Japan issued a 1993 acknowledge….

I've never not been famous..

U.S. has certainly been wanting this to happen since both Japan and Korea are longtime allies of the U.S. and this estranged relationship has prevent….

Japan admitted the Imperial Army ordered the building of these brothels and the trafficking of the women. And now that it's been 70 years, there are ….

For me, creation can only come out of a certain kind of unhappiness. They say in Japan, this thing like the hungry spirit - the hungry mind - is what….

When you don't have a seat at the table, you're on the menu, my friend Lee Saunders has said, and he is correct..

I have to change to stay the same..

You live day by day. You can't build your life..

I is what I is, and I'm not changing..

The movies I like are always movies where cinema is reinvented like if it was the beginning of cinema..

I have seen myself backward..