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I've been programming computers since elementary school, where they taught us, and I stuck with computer science through high school and college.
Masi Oka
Science
School
College
Computer Science
Programming
High
High School
High School And College
Through
Computer
Stuck
Computers
Since
Been
Taught
Where
Us
Elementary
Elementary School
I think it enriches you as a scientist to be able to see things in an artistic perspective and as an artist to see things in a scientific perspective.
Masi Oka
You
Perspective
Think
See
Able
Scientific
Scientist
Artist
Artistic
Things
I got to college and saw all of my friends going to these other schools and thought, 'You know, college is just a blank slate.' And I had an opportunity to go to different schools, but I chose Brown because it was unique and allowed you to be yourself as an individual and like I said, it's a blank slate.
Masi Oka
You
Yourself
Opportunity
Thought
College
Be Yourself
Other
Saw
Brown
Individual
Blank
Blank Slate
Had
Allowed
Like
Know
Schools
Because
Said
Got
Go
Friends
Going
Just
Different
Different Schools
Unique
Chose
Slate
I am a geek. I am an otaku.
Masi Oka
Geek
Am
To have a director's direct feedback is invaluable.
Masi Oka
Director
Feedback
Direct
Invaluable
Acting can be very solitary, even if you're in a scene with someone else, because you worry about your own performance and if you look good.
Masi Oka
Good
You
Own
Else
Worry
Solitary
About
Someone
Scene
Performance
Look
Because
Very
Acting
Your
Even
I was raised by a single mother, and she felt the Japanese education system, albeit wonderful, keeps you in a certain range. You have to be better than this level but below this level.
Masi Oka
Education
You
Wonderful
Better
Mother
Single
Range
System
She
Felt
Single Mother
Than
Japanese
Certain
Keeps
Level
Albeit
Raised
Below
In 'Star Wars: Episode II,' when Jango Fett is chasing Obi Wan Kenobi through an asteroid field, they needed a big asteroid to shatter into a million pieces, and I had to figure out how to do the fracturing, write the code, and show an artist how to use it.
Masi Oka
Chasing
Big
Field
Asteroid
Out
Through
Write
Had
Shatter
Pieces
How
Artist
Episode
Use
Show
Figure
Wars
Star
Star Wars
Code
Million
Needed
One of the reasons I took up acting was to learn to be more human, to get in touch with human emotions.
Masi Oka
Emotions
Took
Touch
More
Learn
Up
Get
Human
Human Emotions
Acting
Reasons
If you look at Japanese drama, I think there is definitely a treasure trove of it, but I just don't think that people know about it. It's got to be pitched and presented better.
Masi Oka
You
People
Better
Think
Drama
Definitely
About
Know
Look
Got
Just
Japanese
Treasure
Presented
I am very happy to help share the great treasure trove of Japanese content with the western world.
Masi Oka
Great
Happy
World
Share
Content
Am
Western
Very
Western World
Japanese
Help
Treasure
My house is like a manga library in many ways, and it's great because I get to call it research.
Masi Oka
Great
Library
Research
Ways
Like
House
Call
Because
Get
Manga
Many
I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I'm from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
Mitski
Confusion
Not Knowing
Think
Find
Knowing
Identity
Comfort
Around
Where
Formed
Might
Whole
Even
If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
Mitski
Me
Crisis
Would
Would-Be
Identity
Itself
Where
Place
Found
Ever
Belonged
Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.
Mitski
Music
Me
Made
Mine
One Thing
Able
Could
Take
No-One
Go
Dictated
Just
The One Thing
Created
Let Go
Thing
I don't think I'm alone in this: I'm obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment.
Mitski
Happiness
Alone
Be Happy
Happy
Contentment
Think
Definition
Rather
More
Only
Maintain
Obsessed
Towards
Ecstasy
Than
Trying
Skewed
I always have strong urges to sabotage myself. Whenever someone says they like something about my music, I tend to not want to do that anymore. It's not even that I don't like it anymore: it's that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.
Mitski
Music
Myself
Me
People
Strong
Ways
Says
Find
About
Someone
Something
Tend
Sabotage
Like
Always
Trying
Whenever
Want
Anymore
Dislike
Urges
Even
Keep
I'm not an innovator.
Mitski
Innovator
I think people don't realize how little of being an artist is making art.
Mitski
Art
People
Think
How
Making
Artist
Being
Little
Realize
On tour, people know that if they ever ask me what I want to eat, I will always say Asian food. I'm becoming a stereotype, but it's what I want to eat. I want to eat rice.
Mitski
Food
Me
People
Will
Say
Eat
Tour
Stereotype
Know
Always
Becoming
Want
Rice
Asian
Ask
Ever
I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance. Things seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything. All the time. I feel like I'm not taken seriously.
Mitski
Time
Me
Seriously
Doors
Every
Everything
Once
Say
Seem
Take
Taken
Instead
Feel
Longer
Knock
Like
Times
Privileges
Different
Turn
Much
Things
Resistance
Two
I know for a fact that I'm problematic. I shouldn't be looked to for any kind of guidance.
Mitski
Guidance
Kind
Fact
Know
Looked
Any
Problematic
Honestly, in the music business, it's all about being cool or being the newest thing or being the 'It' person, and I've tried really hard to be what is expected of me or what would be advantageous to my career, and I just reached the point where I said, 'No, I'm an emotional loser. I can't pretend to not care.'
Mitski
Music
Me
Business
Care
Honestly
Music Business
Pretend
Would
Would-Be
Tried
About
Point
Emotional
Reached
Said
Loser
Person
Expected
Just
Being
Where
Newest
Really
Hard
Cool
Thing
Career
Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don't put much thought into.
Mitski
Thought
Important
Put
Most
Important Decisions
Make
Oftentimes
The Most Important
Decisions
Much
When you're an adult, things mellow out. I think when you're a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.
Mitski
Sad
You
World
Sadness
Ending
Think
Teenager
Everything
Mellow
Out
About
Adult
Things
I don't care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
Mitski
Music
Care
About
Emotion
New
Make
Making
dont Care
Nostalgic
Anything
Express
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