Luis Alberto Urrea Quotes

I was in Japan, and my assistant director had worked with Kurosawa. I used quite of number of Kurosawa's crew.

One of the amazing things about 'Seven Samurai' is that there are a lot of characters. And considering you have so many, and they all have shaved heads, and you've got good guys and bad guys and peasants, you get to understand a lot of them without too much being said.

For many years, my favorite director has been the Japanese giant Akira Kurosawa.

I always loved samurai movies, and I wanted to incorporate that whole level of elegance and just the code of the samurai to 'Conan.'

I've always been really interested in the age of the samurai in Japan.

I have grown up watching conventional films. I am a huge fan.

I'm a huge lover of 'Seven Samurai' and anything Kurosawa ever did. The comedic work out of Japan in terms of martial arts movies, some of them are hilarious.

I really don't have favorites; I'm just a fan of movies, period.

The term 'giant' is used too often to describe artists. But in the case of Akira Kurosawa, we have one of the rare instances where the term fits.

I think Kurosawa was one of the first storytelling geniuses who began to change the narrative structure of films.

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.

I am a great movie buff, and I devour films regularly.

As an actor, you try and be cool, but one of the reasons you become an actor is because you're a film fan. And then you're like, 'Oh my God, Ridley Scott just spoke to me!'

I was never a fanatical movie person.

I'm a gigantic musical film fan.

I'm a big, big movie fan; really, I've seen everything. I really mean that, too.

I am a huge fan of Cronenberg, all his movies.

Basically, I was a very serious film fan. I watched a lot of cinema and contemporary and European film.

I've seen 'The Godfather Part II,' 'Broadcast News,' and 'Annie Hall' more than 20 times each.

I've always wanted to see what it would be like to live in feudal Japan; I think that would be interesting.

Like all artists, I'm a complete cinephile; I see everything. I see past movies, present movies, indie movies, experimental movies.

Kurosawa is my hero, and I've taught courses on his films, and I love what he does, and 'Rashomon' is, I think, his second greatest film after 'Ikiru.'

I'm a movie fanatic. I watch probably four movies a day - not because I'm a lunatic, but because I just love movies.

'Samurai' is not an animated show like you would normally watch on TV. We tell the stories from a different perspective - backward, very nonlinear. It treats it more seriously as an art form.

I'm a big movie guy.