CS: It's been so fun and so rewarding to see Dragon Ball Z get so much attention, and not in an ironic way. Last night, I saw a review in the LA Times for Resurrection F, and it wasn't sarcastic or one of those "Well you know it's anime after all" kind of things. It was a legitimately good review of our movie, and it reminded me that Dragon Ball Z is a serious thing, and that people love and understand it.

For so many years, we'd have all these new actors who came on board asking, "So...explain this whole Dragon Ball thing?" I'd have to explain what the whole series was about each time. But lately, everyone knows what it is because they grew up with it. I'll start explaining the show to them and they go, "No, no I know. That's the kamehameha, that's Goku's signature move." And I'm like, "You know?" And of course they do, they grew up watching the series, everybody's seen it some place or another.

And the new movies are so beautiful. All of the cast members on Dragon Ball are so talented, and working on this for over a decade makes us feel like we've been preparing for this. The movies just look fantastic and sound fantastic, and they fit so well on the big screen.