Because I don't take money, I'll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with almost any orchestra.

Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.

There are a couple of roles I haven't played that I want to. I would love to play Shiloh.

I had a meeting in LA in which they took a really overstuffed hour and a half. It was as close to old Hollywood as I remembered it in the last 20 years.

Something happens to us all when we experience something as a unit that doesn't occur when we're on our couches or holding our little portable DVD players.

I am certainly not a mainstream religious man.

I'd forgotten I'd done the anime called Spirited Away, the English version of a Japanese film.

We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.

I am not a long-run actor. I admire actors who can do that.

You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you.

Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.

Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents’ foster parents, if and when the parents reach their second childhood.

Edsel is the artist in our family. Art is something I know nothing about.

I come from a world where accountability and accomplishments matter, and where titles and rhetoric take a back seat to results.

I'm really into natural and organic products.

Amateur production, the result of all this new capability, means that the category of ‘consumer’ is now a temporary behavior rather than a permanent identity

I grew up with a very quick temper, and the language of violence is a language that I'm very familiar and comfortable with.

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.

Intellection must address the matter of its feeling.

What I have set down in a moment of ardour I must then critically examine. Sometimes I must do myself violence before I can mercilessly erase things thought out with love.