Quote by Helen DeWitt

“Be a Samurai. Because you just never know what's behind the freaking sky.”

— Laini Taylor

“I’m starting to question our choice of life skills,” she whispered to him. “I know. Why aren’t we samurai?” “Let’s be samurai,” she said.”

— Laini Taylor

“Anyway I think I met him in the Swai. I was a Geisha, he was a Samurai”

— Nicki Minaj

“I'd been very influenced by what I'd seen in Japan. Part of what I greatly admired there - and part of what we were…

— Walter Isaacson

“You'd expect that as much as a samurai would expect a kick in the balls.”

— Kelley Armstrong

“For the casual viewer, Kurosawa’s films can be an exercise in endurance.”

— Jerry White

“How could he possibly bow deeply enough to honor a thousand-year-old samurai queen?”

— Nadia Scrieva

“Not about the Japanese, but about moments of perfection. commit it to memory and make good use of it.”

— Melina Marchetta

“If you can, I implore you to watch this scene. It’s seven seconds long. Three hours. Thirty-two takes. And it was only the second…

— Greg Sestero

“Imagine what I could have done in ten years. I could have learned to speak Japanese. I could have played every RPG video game…

— Anonymous

“Japanese had never seen a Western-style circus, and most of them had probably never seen foreigners, either.”

— Frederik L. Schodt

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.

— Hiroyuki Sanada