You don't get to celebrate yourself unless you risk being mocked or rejected. As an artist, you cannot play it safe. You just can't.

I love stage actors. The pool of world class actors that have done theater [is big], there's a higher opportunity of grabbing somebody from that pool.

I'm so from the Woody Allen/Spike Lee school.

Anime is intended to have ambiguous features. That's part of the art form.

There are a lot of things I can take, and a few that I can't. What I can't take is when my older brother, who's everything that I want to be, starts losing faith in things. I saw that look in your eyes last night. I don't ever want to see that look in your eyes again.

There's no staying where you were. If you're not doing anything, your skills and point of view are atrophying.

Most of the time, I don't watch classics with anybody. I have to be by myself. That's my classroom.