Blade runner Quote by Iain Banks

America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.

— Akio Morita

Pre-'Tokyo Drift,' I was like: 'Am I gonna play Yakuza #1 and Chinese Waiter #2 for the rest of my life? Is America even…

— Sung Kang

I'm most concerned with committing to characters that contribute to more complex, modern and dynamic Asian-American representation on screen.

— Eugene Lee Yang

I'm Japanese, of course, but spending so long in America has made me into a different kind of person.

— Kei Nishikori

The power and depth of Japanese acting certainly inspired me, so I was determined that Hollywood was going to get a taste of that,…

— Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate,…

— Mary McCarthy

The Japanese don't write in alphabetic writing; they write in pictographs. So they never became visual, they stayed in the oral world, which is,…

— Owsley Stanley

The future was and remains the quintessential American art form. Other nations sit back and let their futures happen; we construct ours. We can…

— David Gelernter

In many ways the film business is behind what's going on culturally. We are a world that is becoming more diverse and there's no…

— Rick Famuyiwa

We can sometimes recognize the looks of a century ago on a modern face; but never those of a century to come.

— John Fowles

“The twentieth century will be American. American thought will dominate it. American progress will give it color and direction. American deeds will make it…

— John dos Passos

We Americans have always felt a special kinship with the future.

— Mitt Romney