Top 33 Sanada Quotes
#1. I've done Last Samurai in Japan, in LA, in New Zealand. Even in Japan it is very hard to shoot, because there's been so many changes. Only around a temple can we shoot.
Hiroyuki Sanada
#3. When I was eight or nine years old, I saw the TV version of 47 Ronin, played by Toshiro Mifune. He played Oishi. That was my first experience. I watched every week with my brother. "Who plays Oishi tonight? Who will play Kira tonight?" And we fought every week.
Hiroyuki Sanada
#5. I am glad to be here to create a new history in our industry. I'm very proud of this.
Hiroyuki Sanada
#7. I saw a lot of 47 Ronin on the TV, in the films, and I've done Chushingura Gaiden Yotsuya Kaidan [Crest of Betrayal, 1994] directed by Kinji Fukasaku.
Hiroyuki Sanada
#8. This is a good thing, mixing culture to make something new, something no one has ever seen. This is kind of a new history.
Hiroyuki Sanada
#9. A lot of country making films in English, but in Japan we are very shy to speak English.
Hiroyuki Sanada
#10. Anyone who does not feel sufficiently strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
Michel De Montaigne
#11. It's very difficult to introduce the world to our culture.
Hiroyuki Sanada
#12. Especially for this film [ 47 ronin] there's a nice mixture between western and eastern. So Ronin wearing the boots, like Western style. It's a nice mixture.
Hiroyuki Sanada
#13. I looked in the audience. There were no strangers. Everybody was singing and cheering and hugging. That was a beautiful picture to look at.
Celine Dion
#14. This is almost the most famous story The last samurai - Samurai story - in Japan.
Hiroyuki Sanada
#15. When i've done camera test, after we've shot and I've seen the monitor with the glasses (wearing a Kimono) and looking by myself in 3D. Oh my god. Especially for a Samurai film. I've never seen that. It's kind of a culture shock.
Hiroyuki Sanada
#16. This is going to be a very transparent Justice Department. But I'm not gonna sacrifice the safety of the American people or our ability to protect the American homeland.
Eric Holder
#17. If there is an action scene, I want to do everything myself.
Hiroyuki Sanada
#18. None of us knows how long he shall live or when his time will come. But soon, all that will be left of our brief lives is the pride our children feel when they speak our names.
Hiroyuki Sanada
#19. 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
#20. Carl Rinsch has a good balance between the visual and the drama and action, so I thought if he's going to direct, we can make a new, epic film. My fear was gone when I met him.
Hiroyuki Sanada
#21. Diners are upset that restaurants aren't honoring reservations, and a lot of restaurants help bring this on by overbooking.
Danny Meyer
#22. Sometimes I'm doing a big movie, or sometimes I'm doing a TV show, but as an actor, it's almost the same thing for me. If I'm doing action, or comedy, or something more heartfelt, it's a different approach, but it's all acting for me.
Hiroyuki Sanada
#23. I think it's very hard to direct foreign language actors, but Carl Rinsch found a great way. A special super visional way.
Hiroyuki Sanada
#24. It was a black and white film [at first]. And then it changed to colour film, and I was surprised and culture shocked when I was six or seven years old. And then HD, then 3D now. So what's going? What's coming next? It's so exciting.
Hiroyuki Sanada
#25. What is the highest of all goods achievable by action? ... both the general run of man and people of superior refinement say that it is happiness ... but with regard to what happiness is they differ.
Aristotle.
#26. 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
#27. I've done a lot of Samurai film in Japan, and sometimes done the choreography by myself.
Hiroyuki Sanada
#29. I was a child actor, so when I started filming when I was five years old, it was a long time ago.
Hiroyuki Sanada
#30. I was very comfortable on the set of 'Lost'. I was so nervous when I went on to the set because I had just watched all the 'Lost' episodes. I was, like, a fan. A big fan.
Hiroyuki Sanada
#32. Do one's best. Be true to one's truth. Love as fully as one can. Understand that anything else is chaos and try to navigate around it.
Susan Fanetti
#33. How amazing it is that friendships can become so full that you can't imagine what your life was like before them.
David Levithan
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