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

There are a couple of roles I haven't played that I want to. I would love to play Shiloh..

We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information..

I'd forgotten I'd done the anime called Spirited Away, the English version of a Japanese film..

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 pl….

Very often when I go in to meet for movies or pilots, I'm put on videotape. I hate the notion that that tape is going to sit on a shelf and never get….

People are nice enough, but you can hear the giant tick of the second hand. People are so harried..

It's rare to be treated like a friend you haven't met in a Hollywood meeting..

What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you ….

Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them..

Very often, I don't make it through moments of recording because it is genuinely funny and absolutely ridiculous that a 60-year-old grown man is maki….

In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot..

You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins t….

It's really important to stay engaged and involved in the character..

I will never master this craft. Orchestras are very, very forthcoming with me..

If it's right and true, it's listened to and accommodated..

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

I am certainly not a mainstream religious man..

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

I love pulling people into concert halls who might not otherwise go and getting their ears tuned..

My father, who died a few years ago, was a good, simple, very honest man. His faith and affection for his family was just unassailable, without quest….