Japanese Quotes

• There was a Japantown in San Francisco, but after the internment camps that locked up all the Japanese, Japantown shrunk down to just a couple tourist blocks.

  

  Ann Nocenti
  • Up
  • Couple
  • Japanese

• At the time I was writing 'Weedflower,' my friend Naomi Hirahara was writing a book about Japanese-American flower farmers. She knew quite a few elderly farmers and put me in touch with four or five of them who had been in camps during WWII. Some, like my father, were reluctant to talk about their experiences.

  

  Cynthia Kadohata
  • Time
  • Writing
  • She

• I am inspired by both Japanese Samurai films, in particular the films of Kurosawa, and how they share the spirit of American Westerns, with the influences running in both directions, and including the 'Spaghetti Westerns' and films of Sam Peckinpah.

  

  Ann Nocenti
  • American
  • Running
  • Inspired

• My mother lived in Holland, and during World War II was incarcerated in a Japanese camp for three years.

  

  Jane Seymour
  • World
  • War
  • Mother

• It's all about being comfortable, being easy and having you be able to wear something and not having it wear you. It's classic. Every time I've tried to be bold and crazy, I feel like a Japanese animated cartoon character.

  

  Jennifer Aniston
  • Time
  • Character
  • Crazy

• In a way, 'Sin City's designed to be paced somewhere between an American comic book and Japanese manga. Working in black and white, I realized that the eye is less patient, and you have to make your point, and sometimes repeat it. Slowing things down is harder in black and white, because there isn't as much for the eye to enjoy.

  

  Frank Miller
  • Book
  • American
  • Black

• I've got lots of weird illustrations of me from Japanese fans.

  

  Jamie Bell
  • Weird
  • Japanese

• The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn't be anything else no matter what I tried to be. I couldn't be Chinese or Japanese.

  

  John McGahern
  • Chinese
  • Irish
  • Japanese

• I have a doggy, a Japanese Akita, who I live to play with.

  

  Corey Haim
  • Live
  • Play
  • Akita

• Ah, well, if they wanted their adultery, what did it matter to me? I hadn’t much room to talk, anyway, with my five-pound prostitutes who did a bunk and the Japanese girls who cost far less and didn’t do a bunk and whatever I was likely to pick up in Colombo.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Up
  • Japanese

• Indonesian writers are so far behind in terms of global exposure compared with the Philippines and Japanese writers.

  

  Andrea Hirata
  • Japanese

• My mom is from Venezuela, and my dad is German and Japanese, and we lived in Brazil when I was a kid for a couple of years, and then I grew up on Long Island. I think all the traveling and all the nationalities put that stuff in my head. I was just around it a lot.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • Up
  • Long
  • Dad

• When I was on The View, Barbara Walters was asking me about the blood and stuff, and I said, 'Well, you know, that's a staple of Japanese cinema.' And then she came back, 'But this is America.' And I go, 'I don't make movies for America. I make movies for planet Earth.'

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • She
  • America
  • Earth

• I went to the Tokyo Film Festival in Japan because I love Japanese cinema.

  

  Leslie Caron
  • Japanese

• I just fell in love with his music. I thought Yanni was Japanese. I didn't have any idea what a Yanni was. I just thought I was in love with a Japanese man who wrote beautiful music.

  

  Linda Evans
  • Music
  • Beautiful
  • Japanese

• That night we visited various places where well-shaped and scented, though completely naked, Japanese girls came to sit on male knees.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Night
  • Japanese

• The average Korean alive in 1945 was to a far greater degree the product of Japanese rule than the Choson Dynasty.

  

  Brian Reynolds Myers
  • Japanese

• The next movie will be in Mandarin. I enjoyed shooting all the Japanese stuff in Kill Bill so much that this whole film will be entirely in Mandarin.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Movie
  • Actors
  • Kill Bill

• I would say keep supporting space flight, keep telling the public and the politicians why it's important to advance science and explore the galaxy. I encourage the Japanese to keep doing what they're doing.

  

  Leroy Chiao
  • Important
  • Why
  • Science

• The fans, man, the fans have a little different way of thinking. They really applaud the spirit of fighters, and that put a huge influence on the type of energy I fought with, rather than if I won or lost. America's a real win-or-lose culture, where with the Japanese, fighting with spirit is enough.

  

  Eddie Alvarez
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Real

• I have no sense of myself as a sex symbol at all. But the meaning of sex symbol might be a little different in Japan to elsewhere. The Japanese version seems to come with a stronger emphasis on a sort of grownup or mature male charm. And if that's the case, then I guess I'm happy to hear it.

  

  Ken Watanabe
  • Different
  • Happy
  • Sex

• When I was trying to figure out how the government might go about creating the camps in 'The Darkest Minds,' I researched the Japanese internment camps here in the United States, specifically propaganda the government used, and how they capitalized on people's fears.

  

  Alexandra Bracken
  • People
  • Trying
  • Japanese

• Japanese maps tend to come in two varieties: small, schematic, and bewildering; and large, fantastically detailed, and bewildering.

  

  Charles C. Mann
  • Small
  • Japanese

• I'm very happy to be a foreigner in Japan, and I can't think of a more wonderful place to live, but at the same time, I would never want to be Japanese, because they are subject to stresses that I am not.

  

  Pico Iyer
  • Time
  • Live
  • Happy

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