Filmmaker Quote by Nicolas Cage

I've wanted to work with [Kairo aka Pulse director] Kiyoshi Kurosawa, but he has not been making horror movies recently.

— Roy Lee

I admire Akira Kurosawa. I have a deep admiration for him and I would love to make films like that.

— Takashi Miike

I like doing the shows with Ring of Honor, but I don't want to leave Japan.

— Kazuchika Okada

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

— Hiroyuki Sanada

I'm a fan of Japanese cinema in general.

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

I want to make another film. I want to make a better film about the legendary Babaji, with more close-encounter stories of people who…

— Nina Hagen

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

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

I'm very, very desperate to go to Tokyo and experience it.

— Serge Gnabry

Yeah, I'd be happy to go back to Mexico or Japan to make another film.

— Alex Cox

If you're a director and you pay homage to Japan, you're definitely going to remember what you've learned from watching the Japanese masters' films.

— Alexandre Desplat

The contemporary Japanese directors who are well-known in the West - say, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Takeshi Kitano, Naomi Kawase - are mostly unknown to Japanese,…

— Hirokazu Koreeda

I'd love to do a yakuza movie.

— Nicolas Winding Refn