If both sides wanted America to facilitate a dialogue, "it is something we would give consideration to," he says.
"Like any other dialogue, it has its good days and bad days but in general people are still talking and that's a good thing".
Because the movie doesn't translate its Japanese dialogue, it immerses you in the experience of cultural dislocation.
And in its structure and dialogue it is neither quite daring enough to succeed as a bold experiment nor conventional enough to be a plucky little crowd pleaser.
With its carefully controlled, decelerated dialogue, it is weirdly moving in just the same way.
It had no dialogue, it was not able to enter the minds of its protagonists, it had long explanatory tracts.
Although it contains passages of lively narrative and witty dialogue, it is not a coherent work of art, and its text has been marred by revisions and interpolations.
If a government abuses its population or fails to engage in inclusive political dialogue, it should be criticised, then condemned, then shunned and, if it continues, sanctioned.
With awkward sex scenes and flat dialogue, it, too, self-consciously drains the family of emotion.
If you overlap each other's dialogue, it moves the action along faster.
But that agreement, and the dialogue it underpins, are beginning to break down.
