My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
If I wasn't a film-maker, I'd be a film critic. It's the only thing I'd be qualified to do.
If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it's because I put the character first.
Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing.
When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.
It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere.
I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.
I cannot get myself interested in video games. I've been given video game players and they just sit there connected to my TVs gathering dust until eventually I unplug them so I can put in another...
I want to have the fun of doing anime and I love anime, but I can't do storyboards because I can't really draw and that's what they live and die on.