John Foster Quotes (14 Quotes)

Genius is the power of lighting one's own fire.

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

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.

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

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

An observant man, in all his intercourse with society and the world, constantly and unperceived marks on every person and thing the figure expressive of its value, and therefore, on meeting that person or thing, knows instantly what kind and degree of attention to give it. This is to make something of experience.

Nothing can be more destructive to vigor of action than protracted, anxious fluctuation, through resolutions adopted, rejected, resumed, and suspended, and nothing causes a greater expense of feeling. A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself he is as a wave of the sea, or a feather in the air which every breeze blows about as it listeth.

It is a poor and disgraceful thing not to be able to reply, with some degree of certainty, to the simple questions, What will you be What will you do.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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