Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people’s attention and holding it are very difficult.
When something really extreme happens, you have to find a way to embrace that and include it in how you think about the character. Sometimes it’s not easy.
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.
Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.
It’s really important to stay engaged and involved in the character.
It’s rare to be treated like a friend you haven’t met in a Hollywood meeting.
A lot affects the outcome. It boils down to scheduling and the commitment of the network.
Because I don’t take money, I’ll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with almost any orchestra.
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 love pulling people into concert halls who might not otherwise go and getting their ears tuned.
I will never master this craft. Orchestras are very, very forthcoming with me.
In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot.
If it’s right and true, it’s listened to and accommodated.
I’d forgotten I’d done the anime called Spirited Away, the English version of a Japanese film.
I am certainly not a mainstream religious man.
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 give.
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.
I am not a long-run actor. I admire actors who can do that.
I’ve played Lear three times, I would love to do it again.
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 better.