Since my Japanese isn't very good, I had to have an interpreter to communicate with most of the crew.

I had lived in Fukuoka during the mid 1990s, and I was a volunteer with the Fukuoka Asian Film Festival.

The awesomeness of God is that even in the works of the Beach Boys, Beatles, etc., the beauty of the music is a mere reflection of what God does everyday. He creates music of all kinds and moods.

There aren't many American directors here trying to direct a Japanese yakuza film. When you combine that with the fact that I don't speak much Japanese and this was an independent film I was financing myself - people were curious about what I was doing.

As you can probably tell, I like films and directors that bring a totally unique style to filming action.

To me, Shakespeare uses the supernatural elements to reveal his character's inner desires and fears.

I didn't really discover yakuza films until about five or six years ago.

And, of course, supernatural elements just make a story more interesting.

Since my Japanese isn't very good, I had to have an interpreter to communicate with most of the crew.

The souls of men of undecided and feeble purpose are the graveyards of good intentions.

Everyone wants to get better as they go along, but sometimes it's all you can do to stay consistent.

Violence is the last word of the illiterate. Also the first.

The nation is trying to catch up with a rapidly changing world.

All good hotels tend to lead people to do things they wouldnt necessarily do at home.

A Supreme Court justice needs to understand that he is not a politician. He needs to understand that the judiciary is a passive branch of government. His decisions should not proactively seek to set policy.

Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.

In the absence of full-fledged Congressional investigations, American policymakers rarely look back. They are bound by continuity and fealty across administrations and generations.

Balance is so important. We all have to cut up our clock to find out what works for you. If you're ineffective, you're using bad clock management, and you have to adjust. Using a basketball reference, the team who wins is the team that can make adjustments in real time.

But we can also take the radical view that the test of an economy has to do with the extent to which it is providing everybody with a decent means of living.

The Federal Reserve, the Treasury, all the regulator agencies - if there's a problem of the financial mechanism in society, the only one to fix it is government. They've got a legitimate role.

Hope is a believe in God.

We will not attain a state of perfection in this life, but we can and should press forward with faith in Christ along the strait and narrow path and make steady progress toward our eternal destiny.

In a normal time, I don't think economic policy makes a large difference one way or another. But in times of crisis it makes all the difference in the world.

I have derived enormous confidence from being a husband and father.

As a doctor, an educator, an innovator and someone who has dedicated his professional career to making things work better and to helping people - I am ready to lead.

If something happens and you're behind, and you get hit in the mouth early like that, you have two options: You can either pack it in mentally and internally and go into survival mode and quit, or you're going to get up and go to work.

I'm not particularly good at running things when once they get to a certain level. Once it gets routine, get me out of the way.

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

I've been playing games for 30 years, and I've been a hard-core gamer.

It's fun playing two roles. The roles provide a wonderful range of emotions. Stuart is childlike and sensitive. Adam is ruthless, outrageous. He's flamboyant. He does the unexpected.

Rule of art: Cant kills creativity!

We just think that there are all these different ways that people want to share, and that compressing them all into a single blue app is not the right format of the future.

Belief systems thrive in circumstances of collision. They are energized by their opposites.

You feel a sense of elation seeing yourself on a billboard.