Japanese Yakuza Sayings

#1. 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

#2. A hyperreal henceforth sheltered from the imaginary, and from any distinction between the real and the imaginary, leaving room only for the orbital recurrence of models and for the simulated generation of differences.

Jean Baudrillard

#3. If wars still exist, it's because we don't love peace enough.

Marty Rubin

#4. Idleness is an enemy of the soul.

Benedict Of Nursia

#5. The Japanese Mafia. Tell me something, Jason, you ever hear anyone describe our thing as 'The Sicilian Yakuza'? Huh?

Neal Stephenson

#6. Hollywood is an extraordinary kind of temporary place.

John Schlesinger

#7. You know, sometimes you fall in love and you get treated badly, sometimes you get treated well.

Estelle

#8. Some of the dead are too useful for sympathy
The past we own exists on stone and white paper.

Janet McAdams

#9. The one who cannot see that on Earth a big endeavor is taking place, an important plan, on which realization we are allowed to collaborate as faithful servants, certainly has to be blind.

Winston Churchill