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During 'Manchurian Candidate' - that role originated with Laurence Harvey, and I studied everything he did. I would never be able to reproduce that performance, but I got a lot of ideas from watching it.

There was a time when all that mattered was that you were in a good movie.

I had only that one picture, Hitler, the Beast of Berlin, in which I had a part big enough to impress anyone. I tried for better roles over and over again.

I watch a film and the most important thing to me is what I think of the movie.

The most important thing for Quentin and the most important thing for me is to make the best film possible.

As I became very defined in my personal politics, I turned down some films that I slightly regret now; I'm not going to say what they were.

If I tried to somehow wrap my head around the fact that Francis Ford Coppola directed my first movie, there's never a slot into which that ever fits in your mind.

I was chosen for 'Wolverine' because there weren't any other Japanese actresses available who could speak English. With 'Batman v Superman' and 'Hannibal,' I got the roles as a result of previous work I'd done, not just because of my nationality.

Steven Spielberg was my childhood hero.

I made so many films which were more important, but the only one people ever want to talk about is that one with Bogart.