Very often, I don't make it through moments of recording because it is genuinely funny and absolutely ridiculous that a 60-year-old grown man is making these noises.

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.

The ordinary build houses when they have bricks

If you don't like music, there is something wrong with your face

I spent two weeks at the Sadhguru's [Jaggi Vasudev]. It was a wonderful experience. It was very different from what I normally do - earlier I used to do Ashtanga [yoga] all the time.

The single spirit doth simultaneously temper the whole together; this is the single soul of all things; all are filled with God .

I see what's behind everything the director wants to do.

You didn’t hurt me, the situation did. And now that I know why I felt that way, it won’t hurt.

You have to start out learning to believe the little lies. "So we can believe the big ones?" Yes. Justice, mercy, duty. That sort of thing.

So I fancied a game of darts with my mate. He said, 'Nearest the bull goes first.' He went 'Baah' and I went 'Moo'. He said 'You're closest.'

But O, sick children of the world, Of all the many changing things In dreary dancing past us whirled, To the cracked tune that Chronos sings, Words alone are certain good.