Japanese Film Quotes

#1. I believe, the Japanese film industry must be open.

Hiroyuki Sanada

#2. If you look at Japanese film, it is made up of collage or bricolage, it is made up of lists, and suddenly when you stand back from the lists you begin to see the pattern of a life.

Michael Ondaatje

#3. Unless it's done superbly, as in the Japanese film Gate of Hell, color can be a very distracting element.

Norman McLaren

#4. The great Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa said that to be an artist means never to avert your eyes. And that's the hardest thing, because we want to flinch. The artist must go into the white hot center of himself, and our impulse when we get there is to look away and avert our eyes.

Robert Olen Butler

#5. I'd forgotten I'd done the anime called Spirited Away, the English version of a Japanese film.

David Ogden Stiers

#6. 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 for it, and just trying to present it in a way that other people can love it as much as I do.

Quentin Tarantino

#7. As far as I have been able to understand, the Japanese seem to keep things close to the vest. Friendly but remote and polite to the point of being invisible. It is in the music, literature, film and art that the Japanese really seem to express themselves.

Henry Rollins

#8. Well, let's say Asian. Some are Japanese. Some are Chinese. Some are Thai. Some are Vietnamese. He runs the gamut. And I actually happen to have a very dear daughter-in-law who's Japanese. I don't know what she's going to make of the film, but I say a few disparaging things.

Jacki Weaver

#9. I had great inspiration from a Japanese composer named Toru Takemitsu. He wrote over 90 film scores and a lot of concert music, a lot of classical music, and he gave me a lot of inspiration, as well as composers from other countries.

Howard Shore

#10. My character in 'Batman v Superman' isn't supposed to be Japanese, but director Zack Snyder said he'd seen me in 'Wolverine' and had to get me in the film somehow. Hearing that was like music to my ears.

Tao Okamoto

#11. The film 'The Cove' made people aware of the Japanese slaughter of whales.

Paul Watson

#12. 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

#13. The next movie will be in Mandarin. I enjoyed shooting all the Japanese stuff in Kill Bill so much that this whole film will be entirely in Mandarin.

Quentin Tarantino

#14. I had to trick people into giving me money for my first film. Making a romantic comedy is easier and more expected from a woman than it is to make a drama about a Japanese warrior.

Julie Delpy

#15. 47 Ronin is a very special movie for me. Not only a Samurai thing. Not only a Hollywood fantasy. It has a very special mixture between Japanese traditional culture and Western culture for the costume, set, story. Everything. I believe it will be a very special film that no one has ever seen.

Hiroyuki Sanada

#16. I saw the film Pearl Harbour and it made me wish that the Japanese had bombed Hollywood instead!

Clive James

#17. All my films have found distribution and prestige in the Japanese market, so I actually feel my films are very well received and seldom misunderstood.

Linda Hoaglund

#18. I went to the Tokyo Film Festival in Japan because I love Japanese cinema.

Leslie Caron

#19. There aren't many American directors here trying to direct a Japanese yakuza film. When you combine that with the fact that I don't speak much Japanese and this was an independent film I was financing myself - people were curious about what I was doing.

John Foster