Character Quote by Genndy Tartakovsky

'Samurai' is not an animated show like you would normally watch on TV. We tell the stories from a different perspective - backward, very…

— Genndy Tartakovsky

Akira Kurosawa, David Lean and Alfred Hitchcock were the main inspirations for 'Samurai Jack,' along with a lot of '70s cinema.

— Genndy Tartakovsky

I always loved samurai movies, and I wanted to incorporate that whole level of elegance and just the code of the samurai to 'Conan.'

— Jason Momoa

Samurai films, like westerns, need not be familiar genre stories. They can expand to contain stories of ethical challenges and human tragedy.

— Roger Ebert

My character Jack in the New York Spring Spectacular is a lot of fun. He's playful, he's full of life. He can make things…

— Derek Hough

One of the amazing things about 'Seven Samurai' is that there are a lot of characters. And considering you have so many, and they…

— George Lucas

I've done a lot of Samurai film in Japan, and sometimes done the choreography by myself.

— Hiroyuki Sanada

Samurai culture did exist really, for hundreds of years and the notion of people trying to create some sort of a moral code, the…

— Edward Zwick

I want to present a really interesting vision of [Jack] Kirby's characters and environments, as well as dig way, way deeper into the history…

— Sterling Gates

There's a level where the themes of a film are very relevant to me and also the idea of finding out how relevant one…

— James Mangold

I've always been passionate about these different (film) genres. Kung fu movies, samurai movies, Japanese movies, all this kind of stuff, and my love…

— Quentin Tarantino

I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.

— Quentin Tarantino