As far as I have been ABLE to understand, the Japanese seem to keep things close to the vest. Friendly but remote and polite to the POINT of being invisible. It is in the music, LITERATURE, film and art that the Japanese REALLY seem to express themselves.

There's a tacit belief that actors shouldn't WRITE BOOKS, they're sort of allowed to direct movies but there will be a lot of SKEPTICISM, and they shouldn't do artwork or music. There are these invisible roadblocks to gain entree to these areas for actors, and you KIND of have to crash through those invisible BARRIERS.

The invisible dilemma is that men FACE the very real PROBLEM that they don't feel COMFORTABLE bringing these issues up and they tend not to be acknowledged at WORK.

In 'Jonaki,' it isn't about the individual actor. The actor is as IMPORTANT as the WALL, or the water flowing down the wall, or a shadow. That kind of ACTING is also fascinating to me, not to be INVISIBLE necessarily, but to be in perfect synchronicity with the environment.

I was growing up and maturing at a time where we were invisible, man. We were nowhere except negative. Any time you saw a Latin PERSON in HOLLYWOOD or on TV, they were some sort of negative character.

Why don't we hear more about and from Asians when it comes to race in America? Are Asians the new Invisible Man - there but not there? In some WAYS, YEAH. BLACKS and whites are always carping about the metrics of racism. And any CONVERSATION about immigration reform is immediately flipped into a referendum on Hispanics.

I ALWAYS felt as a KID that I was underappreciated, invisible or weird, but I've always secretly thought PEOPLE WOULD one day appreciate what is different about me. I'm always PUTTING that message out there.

A PRIEST is he who LIVES solely in the REALM of the INVISIBLE, for whom all that is visible has only the TRUTH of an allegory.

Old money in Southeast Asia is much more discrete and low key. It's about not WEARING brand NAMES. It's about being invisible, almost. The BILLIONAIRE can be TAKING the BUS with you.

The PHENOMENON develops calmly, but it is invisible, unstoppable. One feels, one SEES it born and GROW steadily; and it is not in one's POWER to either hasten or SLOW it down.

I wanted to show that EVEN if you fail, you have the ability to pick yourself up off the floor and try again. I wanted to show a different side of what a DISABILITY LOOKS like to highlight all the invisible ONES.

Astronomers sometimes observe that a star of medium magnitude INCREASES suddenly in size; a star invisible to the naked eye may become very brilliant and visible without any telescope - the appearance of a NOVA.

I just THINK that, for my PARTICULAR PERSONALITY, feeling slightly INVISIBLE is always a HELP.