If you really want to show power in its larger aspects, you need to show the effects on the powerless, for good or ill - the human cost of public works. That's what I try to do, show not only how power works but its effect on people.
You can't pick up the telephone and say, 'Connect me with someone else who has a kid with leukemia.'
I think anyone who has a boy would tell you that they do the sort of things that make you look at them and ask why they would do that. 'Oh right, because you're a boy.'
I'm trying to always do new things because if you stay behind and fight the future, you are just going to be left behind.
It is rare that you read scripts that genuinely move you and make you feel that, regardless of the commercial possibilities, you have to make the film.
Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best.
There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.
I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.
If you go to Japan for instance, you should know that they have a different way of playing Beethoven or Brahms. But if you play with them Mozart, Debussy, Mendelssohn, they have a wonderful light feeling for that.
Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.
You have a lot of people on the run and really don't have time to sit down and eat a balanced meal.
Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
When you label someone 'up and coming' or 'the new breakout,' there's this kind of expectation. And I think, like I said before, it's very hard to live up to that expectation when you really don't have that much power as an actor - in terms of your career path and the timing.
Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.
If you were to ask me, 'What the hell does a musician have in common with a restaurant?' I would say a huge amount. It's show time every day, it's a team of people, like, running a circus, which is running a rock-and-roll band.
You go out with a girl you used to date, she looks so damn good, and then at a certain point you say, Boy, now I remember. I know why I left!
I think directing in a team is a really good idea because it stops the cult of the director as God straight away, and also you're discussing things on set so it opens it out to everyone and it becomes a totally collaborative thing. And you have someone who supports you when you're feeling a bit insecure.
You have to be doing things that matter - responsibility, but also responsibility with epic and beautiful and noble tasks.
You see, we are not machines and we do not have lots of ideas in a drawer.
Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game.
One of the things about Fleetwood Mac, you gotta say, is that it's not very often that you get everyone to want the same thing at the same time.
Most of the catfish you find at the fish counter has been farmed. Though I usually prefer to buy and eat wild fish, farmed catfish taste cleaner, without the muddy taste of their wild relatives.
The word 'embarrassing' is an insulting word, to tell you the truth.
Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.
I have always been a sucker for ballads, but you have to be careful these days, you can't overload people.
I'm not looking at money, percentage points or grosses. This is my life, you know? To me, every day matters.
You know, it's a wonderful thing. I have to say that some of the greatest actors I've ever worked with have been doing anime for years. It's not just because of the popularity, either.
I'm just saying that if you understand how the economic machine works, it just works like a machine. There are cause-effect relationships.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
You can know what's in your life when you know what's in your heart.
Acting is all about truth and honesty, and the sensitivity that's capable of transporting you.
Training is very tough. I probably hurt and get out of breath more in training because in matches, you can hit an ace, then have 25 seconds off. In training, you're doing drills constantly.
It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word.
I think to love somebody every day for a long period of time is the most romantic thing you can do.
When I did have some success, it further emboldens you to be like, 'No, I'm just going to write what I feel I should write.'
But if you could make that mistake and press the send button and the entire world sees it forever.
