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“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 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’ve always been really interested in the age of the samurai in Japan.”
“I wasn’t hip to ‘Samurai Jack’ until I saw it, but then I was all, ‘This show is awesome!’”
“I’ve always wanted to play a samurai warrior.”
“I am actually a ‘Seven Samurai’ fan.”
“Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they’re so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.”
“I am a genre lover – everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.”
