Fun can happen on the interior. Nobody knows about it, but there are fireworks going on inside your spirit when you hear a great orchestra playing great music.

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.

Ten flashing lights are a nuisance but 500 are fantastic.

If you're constantly hamstrung by worry that people aren't going to like it, you can't do your job.

When we design our national R&D programs, we ought to ensure a place for the small, the new, and the cutting-edge.

I have gradually confused photography with life.

For context, the budget of Don Jon is about half the budget of (500) Days of Summer. And (500) Days of Summer is about a third of the budget of the lowest-budget movies produced at a major studio.

Write,' she said, 'as if you'll never be read. That way you'll be sure to tell the truth.

I never knew anyone who was cloned, but I played one in Multiplicity.

The relationship of humans to nature. We are sadly divorced from it.

It's entirely different waking up in the morning and praying. I read aloud six or seven different devotional books, one of which is the Bible and ask the Lord to be with me that day.

There are a lot of very brilliant people who believe that the nation-state is fast becoming a relic of the past.