Since my Japanese isn't very good, I had to have an interpreter to communicate with most of the crew.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I have an all-Japanese design team, and none of them speak English. So it's often funny and surprising how my ideas end up lost in translation.
Increasingly, corporate executives who don't speak Japanese are coming into Japan. Unlike their predecessors, they expect their employees to be able to communicate in English.
I don't really do Japanese interviews. I don't think there's much call for me in Japan.
Japanese is a very difficult language.
My CIA godfather told me he'd never heard any American speak Japanese so well.
My life was very Japanese.
I was in Japan, and my assistant director had worked with Kurosawa. I used quite of number of Kurosawa's crew.
I had a quick ear and could pick up languages.
I took Japanese in high school. I'm Chinese, though, and I just fell in love with the language and the culture.
I know just enough Japanese to get by if I get lost and greet an audience properly, just from having a lot of Japanese friends and being there over the years.