I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people.

Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp.

Never judge another man on his appearance. Rusty barbed wire holds back more beasts than you will ever know.

You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young.

The arc of our history is toward more equality being expanded to more and more people.

I have two passions in my life. One is to raise the awareness of the internment of Japanese-American citizens. My other passion is the theater. And I've been able to wed the two passions.