Tadanobu Asano

“I don't know if there's something in the Japanese spirit that drives that, but as a culture, I know, we're very respectful of artists--more so than in America, or so I've been led to believe.”

Yusaku Matsuda

Kenji Sawada

Pierre Clémenti

“A mainstream career? I could have survived in mainstream films, but that wasn’t my story. I have no regrets. I don’t have the will to be part of films that don’t even deserve to be made… I’ve always worked alone and I ruined nothing but myself.”

Tatsuya Nakadai

“You’re willing to take a plunge from any height. There’s just something about being in front of the camera. And being in front of an audience is the same thing. It’s hopeless. I guess I’m just a ham.”

Kei Satô

Yves Montand

“Pacifists are like sheep who believe that wolves are vegetarians.”

Alain Delon

“I like to be loved like I love myself.”

Antonin Artaud

“When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.”

Renée Jeanne Falconetti

Peter Lorre

“[on his first meeting with Alfred Hitchcock] I had heard that he loved to tell stories and so I watched him like a hawk, and when I was of the opinion he had just told the punchline of a story, I broke out in such laughter that I almost fell off my chair.”

Conrad Veidt

“It is precisely as if I am possessed by some other spirit when I enter on a new task of acting, as though something within me presses a switch and my own consciousness merges into some other, greater, more vital being.”