THE SAMURAI I walked into his room and found swords hanging on his walls— legitimate samurai swords. When I asked him about it, he had a distant look on his face, and said, “I am warrior.” Not “I am a warrior”—just “I ...
“I had seenYojimbo[a Japanese Samurai film] with a buddy of mine who was also a Western freak, and we both thought what a great Western it would make, but nobody would ever have the nerve, so we promptly forgot it. A few years later my agency calls up and says, ‘Would you like...