Very often when I go in to meet for movies or pilots, I'm put on videotape. I hate the notion that that tape is going to sit on a shelf and never get better.

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 nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.

Years, lovers, and glasses of wine. These are things that should never be counted.

All dreams appear impossible until somebody makes them happen.

Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of poets.

It doesn't get any easier; you just get faster.

Every American president, regardless of party, has said that America has an intense interest in a peaceful resolution. And I think it should be left at that.

It so happened that my goals kind of matched my career progression toward becoming an astronaut.

I need different people to tap into different energies for different things.

Enthusiasm is the key not only to the achievement of great things but to the accomplishment of any thing that is worthwhile.

Artists live in an imperfect world where affairs of the heart must sometimes be compromised with business.