I've been playing these schoolgirl roles in all my movies. Every time I went to the set, it felt like I was going to school.

I didn't understand the American fascination with the Japanese schoolgirl. No, I don't think I can, really.

Julie Dryfus and I were both afraid of heights and in one scene, I had to be quite high up and I was rather terrified, but Julie was very kind, encouraging me and we got through that together.

I once hit Quentin on the head with my ball and chain.

I certainly look at them very differently now, and enjoy Jackie Chan movies and movies like that.

Japan is very much a TV-centered entertainment industry. So, when you talk about big stars in Japan, generally they are people who are on television. I work mostly in movies.

I think probably like seeing women fight because we're generally not thought to be strong, especially in the case of this movie.

I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.

Art is either revolution or plagiarism

A joke's a very serious thing.

I hope to get out before they start football next year.

Caution is the instinct of the weaker animal.

Our immediate influence in b-boying was James Brown, point blank.

As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.

I had so much fear of blood, and the first thing I did was to cut myself to see what happens. That's the only way to rebuild yourself.

One of the attributes of love . . . is to bring harmony and order out of chaos.

Personally, I believe a rocking hammock, a good cigar, and a tall gin-and-tonic is the way to save the planet.