I am not a long-run actor. I admire actors who can do that.

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.

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.

Every time I hear, Cut. Print, something cold and electrical goes off in my head, because I'm never going to change that film.

I don't think there's anything wrong with borrowing someone else's faith to get you through until you get enough on your own.

We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.

You can't be everything to everyone

Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom

[ Tax cut ] will create tremendous numbers of new jobs. But regulations, [Hillary Clinton] are going to regulate these businesses out of existence.

Why do we work so hard to feel so terrible?

This book [March], in my estimation, is a road map. It is a change agent. It is saying to people, "This is a way".

The desire to win is born in most of us. The will to win is a matter of training. The manner of winning is a matter of honour.

Regret of neglected opportunity is the worst hell that a living soul can inhabit.

One of the most important things to me is to make things real, not have models who are perfectly groomed or clothes that are too perfect. It all has to have a twist because that's how people live.