“Obviously, a skirt does present certain problems that I had to be awar...” — Chiaki Kuriyama Quote

Obviously, a skirt does present certain problems that I had to be aware of. But when it came to the shoot and we were rolling, I didn't really pay it any attention. It wasn't too bad.

Up until doing this movie, I hadn't really paid a huge amount of attention to those genres, but after finishing this movie, it really gave me a different sense of appreciation of the way the movies play out.

I think the biggest difficulty is that when I'm here in America, there's a necessity of using English, so I really have a great sense of really wanting to learn, but unfortunately when I head back to Japan, the necessity vanishes and so does my enthusiasm about learning.

I didn't understand the American fascination with the Japanese schoolgirl. No, I don't think I can, really.

At least from my position, I worry about it more when we're rolling because people get comfortable.

With say The Rolling Stones you can do anything in their position so we are surprised that you always know what to expect with them.

Don't overthink things. Make the next record, and keep rolling with it.

I am a rolling stone, never in one place for very long.

The terrible tragedy for every director is to watch an actor do what you want and not have the camera rolling - and never get it back again. So I always try to roll the camera before anybody's really ready.