In the studio you have pretty much carte blanche with whatever you're doing. You can turn natural instruments into electronic instruments.
The stage is my love, it's where I started and where I do my best work.
It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.
I feel, as a person, very uninteresting.
One of the great things that you should never do that I learned from John Malkovich is to never judge your characters.
I'm acting with the best actors in the world.
The Dalai Lama was once asked for his favorite chant, and he said it was better not to have a favorite anything, which I think is a great thought.
I doubt very much if Mao would ever command great respect from the intellectual élite of China, perhaps not entirely because he has an extraordinary mind, but because he has the personal habits of a peasant.
Mortal beauty often makes me ache, and mortal grandeur can fill me with that longing. . . but Paris, Paris drew me close to her heart, so I forgot myself entirely. Forgot the damned and questing preternatural thing that doted on mortal skin and mortal clothing. Paris overwhelmed, and lightened and rewarded more richly than any promise.
All values are important, everyone who has ever touched my life in some way was a mentor for good or bad. Life is a blend, and a person is a blend of all the influences that have touched their lives.
The place where you lose the trail is not necessarily the place where it ends.