I think probably like seeing women fight because we're generally not thought to be strong, especially in the case of this movie.

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

Julie Dryfus and I were both afraid of heights and in one scene, I had to be quite high up and I was rather terrified, but Julie was very kind, encouraging me and we got through that together.

I once hit Quentin on the head with my ball and chain.

I certainly look at them very differently now, and enjoy Jackie Chan movies and movies like that.

Japan is very much a TV-centered entertainment industry. So, when you talk about big stars in Japan, generally they are people who are on television. I work mostly in movies.

I've been playing these schoolgirl roles in all my movies. Every time I went to the set, it felt like I was going to school.

…growing a little tiresome on account of some mysterious internal discomfort that the local practitioner diagnosed as imagination

Spiritual warfare is the unseen battle God wages on your behalf.

Salad, I can't bear salad. It grows while you're eating it, you know.

A bad man can do a million times more harm than a beast.

God fixed my heart, so I could bless yours.

Truth must be dug up from the past and presented to the circle of scholastics in scientific form and then through stories and dramatizations that will permeate our educational system.

To those who can hear me, I say, do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress.

Utopia is not one of the options.

Everything goes. I am working very hard at not thinking about how everything goes.

I'm not a reader of young adult fiction for the simple reason that these novelists are writing for adolescents, so they are not writing for me.