"No matter what happens, we couldn't let people say Asian-American actors can't act. Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes -- waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain."

 (Mako, pseudonimo di Makoto Iwamatsu, attore; Kōbe, 10 dicembre 1933 – Somis, 21 luglio 2006)