Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan.

Nonviolence worked in Serbia, and it can work in other countries seeking their freedom.

I always enjoy working with an international crew and director. But on the set of a Hollywood action film - now that's a whole other world. The sheer grand scale of the way things are done over there makes me envious; it's just so different from the way things are done in Japan.

I was a devil in other countries, and I was a little devil in America, too.

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

Because I feel 'Thor' is the beginning of finding my roots, and I found that I have family in America, I want to take my time and put effort on my future work so that foreign people get to know me better, and I also want to enjoy that process itself!