Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult.

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.

If music be the food of love, play on.

May I nurture the serenity to accept the things I cannot change the courage to change the things I can change and wisdom to know the difference

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong.

The Lord is our hope.The Lord is our help.

The future bears down upon each one of us with all the hazards of the unknown. The only way out is through.

Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh.

For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.

Knowing is passing from the false to the true and seeing the Absolute Whole in the part.

The impermanence of the universe is manifest, inescapable. I know that, yet I am immoderately attached to this life, these pleasures, this place.

The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.