John Foster Quotations

Since my Japanese isn't very good, I had to have an interpreter to communicate with most of the crew.

I had lived in Fukuoka during the mid 1990s, and I was a volunteer with the Fukuoka Asian Film Festival.

There aren't many American directors here trying to direct a Japanese yakuza film. When you combine that with the fact that I don't speak much Japanese and this was an independent film I was financing myself - people were curious about what I was doing.

I might have shot on 35mm if I had had more money, but we used Panasonic's Varicam camera, and I think the film looks great in high definition.

To me, Shakespeare uses the supernatural elements to reveal his character's inner desires and fears.

As you can probably tell, I like films and directors that bring a totally unique style to filming action.

The awesomeness of God is that even in the works of the Beach Boys, Beatles, etc., the beauty of the music is a mere reflection of what God does everyday. He creates music of all kinds and moods.

I wanted to avoid communication and cultural problems, so I made the conscious decision to be the only non-Japanese person on the crew.

I didn't really discover yakuza films until about five or six years ago.

And, of course, supernatural elements just make a story more interesting.

Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order?

A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself.

One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.