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

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.

Every time I hear, Cut. Print, something cold and electrical goes off in my head, because I'm never going to change that film.

Impossibility is possible till it becomes impossible

Each soul has its own note to sing in the divine chorus and no voice is more important than another. (94)

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair but after all the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

We all have within us a deep wisdom, but sometimes we don't know we have it.

When one woman tells her truth, it makes a space for other women to tell their truths.

How you choose to respond each moment to the movie of life determines how you see the next frame, and the next, and eventually how you feel when the movie ends.

If you want immortality, then deny form. Whatever has form has mortality. Beyond form is the formless, the immortal.

Well, dissent is the tradition in America, and I've been on the side of dissent a good bit of my career, particularly in the last many years of the Republican Congress.

It is life that does the thinking all around us, forming with playful ease the connections our reason can only laboriously patch together piecemeal, and never to such kaleidoscopic effect.

MySpace is such a weird world to me. I don't have a MySpace account. The stuff that's up there, I didn't set any of it up. Fans set it up.