High school music teachers... nobody makes a living off it.

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.

Spread peace and love. Be the bearer of the light of love.

If you want to live an exceptional life, you must move beyond probability into the realm of possibility

The United States is a successful nation that is constantly susceptible to melancholy because things are not perfect.

Your destiny can only be defined by you.

My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly.

Today I see beauty everywhere I go, in every face I see, in every single soul, and sometimes even in myself.

You see, though we travel together, we travel alone.

Leo's biggest surprise: One look from Jason, and all three of them knew the game plan. When had that happened, that they could read each other so well?

I don't believe in God for the same reason that most people don't believe in Apollo or Zeus. ... God is just human beings' way of personifying an otherwise completely natural universe.

Running a ball club is like raising kids who fall out of trees.