American Quote by John Foster

I'd love to do a yakuza movie.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

I want to do a Yakuza movie.

— Gareth Evans

I don't believe in making movies to cater to a foreign audience. You never know what the reaction is going to be anyhow. At…

— Hirokazu Koreeda

I've been making movies for a long time. The Japanese way of making movies has become second nature to me. To get away from…

— Takashi Miike

As an Asian immigrant coming in, for the longest time I still had problems getting in the lot because they're just not used to…

— Justin Lin

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

There was a time when I desperately wanted to be part of a Yash Chopra film, not because he was a great director, but…

— Katrina Kaif

Making films is much more difficult than people imagine, and so the experience of actually directing them is not one I've ever relished.

— Sydney Pollack

If my films did better at the box office in Japan, it would be easier to get them made.

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

Every time I make an American film I just trust the American director and American writer. Myself, I would never make this kind of…

— Jackie Chan

I have done several films, but I've mostly done TV, and 99% of the work I've done has been in Japan.

— Julie Dreyfus

But then foreign critics right away made sweeping comparisons to haiku, noh theater, and directors like Ozu, as if the movie were somehow representative…

— Hirokazu Koreeda