When something really extreme happens, you have to find a way to embrace that and include it in how you think about the character. Sometimes it's not easy.

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.

Expand your vision and widen your reasoning

When a fan comes up to you and says I love your music, there’s nothing better than that.

It is easier to become entangled with an enemy than to disentangle oneself afterwards.

Some days are meant to be counted, others are meant to be weighed.

The great poem and the deep theorem are new to every reader, and yet are his own experiences, because he himself recreates them.

There's a certain lack of gimmickry to what I do that makes people in England go: 'Where's the thing?

It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy

The Cross of Christ may have overcome evil, but it did not overcome unfairness. For that, Easter is required.

Seasons vary, circumstances change, feelings fluctuate, friendships cool, friends die, but Christ is ever the same.

How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.