I would like to hook up with one of the great Japanese filmmakers, like the master that made 'Ringu,' and I would like to take 'The Wicker Man' to Japan, except this time he's a ghost.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Yeah, I'd be happy to go back to Mexico or Japan to make another film.
There aren't many American directors here trying to direct a Japanese yakuza film. When you combine that with the fact that I don't speak much Japanese and this was an independent film I was financing myself - people were curious about what I was doing.
For many years, my favorite director has been the Japanese giant Akira Kurosawa.
I had lived in Fukuoka during the mid 1990s, and I was a volunteer with the Fukuoka Asian Film Festival.
I really love traveling to Japan.
Japanese women have always loved my films, even when no one else did. Ever since I made 'Maurice' in the 1980s, I've been getting hundreds of letter from Japanese girls. They definitely have a special place in my heart.
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.
I'd really like to go back to New Japan because it feels like home, and I love that place so much.
I'm a huge, huge lover of weaponry, of Japanese martial arts movies.
I don't really do Japanese interviews. I don't think there's much call for me in Japan.