Especially for this film [ 47 ronin] there's a nice mixture between western and eastern. So Ronin wearing the boots, like Western style. It's a nice mixture.

None of us knows how long he shall live or when his time will come. But soon, all that will be left of our brief lives is the pride our children feel when they speak our names.

I've been wearing kimono for several years, and armor.

It's a Samurai story [47 ronin], so if we change too much Japanese audiences will have strong against feelings to the film. It's not good.

A lot of country making films in English, but in Japan we are very shy to speak English.

It's very difficult to introduce the world to our culture.

I believe, the Japanese film industry must be open.

I saw a lot of 47 Ronin on the TV, in the films, and I've done Chushingura Gaiden Yotsuya Kaidan [Crest of Betrayal, 1994] directed by Kinji Fukasaku.

I was a child actor, so when I started filming when I was five years old, it was a long time ago.

This is almost the most famous story The last samurai - Samurai story - in Japan.

I've done Last Samurai in Japan, in LA, in New Zealand. Even in Japan it is very hard to shoot, because there's been so many changes. Only around a temple can we shoot.

Intelligence is power

I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise.

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

I suppose you've always been amazing at this stuff."- Clary "I was born amazing." - Jace

The Net is the new underlying infrastructure for civilization itself.

Less government, less regulation, lower taxes.

Happiness is seeing the muscular lifeguard all the girls were admiring leave the beach hand in hand with another muscular lifeguard.

The common enemy is the white man.

A lot of the stuff Kafka said he thought was hilariously funny.

The future must enter you long before it happens.