Takashi Murakami Quotes

It's really hard to get fans in another country, especially here, because America is so, so big, so it's really hard to get known in this country.

Bollywood, no doubt, has a wider acclaim, and it feels top of the world to see people from all around the world dancing to my songs.

Britain has nurtured me and made me able to make movies that have travelled round the world.

The Ice Storm, because of the movie, has had, or is to have, a vigorous life in other cultures.

I have fans all around the world.

Internationally, I have as large of a fan base - if not larger - than I have domestically.

As a Latin musician, I understand that there are so many places where people don't know who I am. My albums never came out in Australia or Japan.

Personally, I don't give a toss about French viewers. I make films for foreigners - it's a bit like Ken Loach, who's not very popular in England but has had a lot of success in France. Cinema is always an experience in a foreign body.

We're absolutely American and distinctly so, I think. That's part of what people respond to outside of this country, part of the reason that we're such a huge band outside of the U.S., where we're not so popular now as we were 10 or 12 years ago.

I gladly accepted the commission but was uncertain about what the end result would be. On the one hand, Cuban music was conquering the world; being heard everywhere, and our small island was already producing one of the popular musical genres of the 20th century.

I didn't think much about foreign readers when I began 'Naruto,' but I knew that many of the artists who influenced me had already been accepted overseas.

Apparently 'The Office' plays in Brazil. Who would've thought that Brazilians would identify with a bunch of pasty white Scrantonians in a paper company? But the Brazilians I've met have really loved the show.

I still have a pretty lively audience in German and across Europe. And I continue to say, 'Thank you, God,' for making me smart enough to avoid getting hit by trucks and going out and finding myself an audience abroad. Which includes Asia - from Jakarta to Japan. Working hard at finding an audience abroad.

Once I had gone for a shoot at a remote Fiji island in the middle of Pacific Ocean and I was thoroughly bowled over the popularity of this character there! I've also got positive feedback from U.K., U.S.A., Canada, Pakistan and Dubai for my performance as Brahmanad.

Indians can identify with the Indian sensibilities, and rather than taking something from foreign films, it is always good to make a movie which has been enjoyed by a certain audience or in a certain part of India and make it available to a larger audience.

When the first video was uploaded to YouTube, that's when we realized that people outside of Japan were interested. That's where we see Babymetal spreading, with people trying to mimic music or dance moves.

I can understand my popularity with the Indian diaspora, but I do get surprised when non-Indians recognise my music.

Westerners are open to Indian films.

Once upon a time Americans didn't want to listen to Canadian rap and now Drake's the biggest rapper in the world.

When I went to England the first time, everyone asked the same question - how come you're so big in Europe and nothing in England. And I told them that all the continents, they're coming, one by one.

I had this question when we started: Is this something that's only going to work in New York City? And then, is it just in North America? Is it just in Western culture?

I am extremely proud of my heritage, and I would never use being Dutch as an excuse but rather an explanation of our cultural differences.

The audiences everywhere feel the same emotions. That's why when movies do well in an industry, they become popular all over.

We're a direct mirror of the audience, and that shows how hip-hop has expanded. It's no longer just an urban thing, and it's no longer just an American thing, either. It's a universal thing.

I was not grown up in the U.S., nor in Japan. In order to create a video game that people around the globe can enjoy and relate to, I can't draw things deeply rooted in the local culture that I'm not familiar with. That's why we are not doing games about football or samurai.