I've always believed that the greatest actors are the ones that have the voices that are imitable.

I don't want to just do independent movies and I don't want to just do adventure films. I enjoy both, and I think both are cogent.

I haven't isolated myself. I am not living on a yacht somewhere. I am not tucked away or behind a gate somewhere. I am not flying on a private plane. I am going to the airport, I am with people, some of the interactions are good, some of them are not so good, but it keeps me in touch with being, you know, part of society.

Film has lost something in the translation to high tech. It's become so super-real. It's with digital this and stereo that, and everything's like a CD.

The fact that 'Astro Boy' appealed to me as a boy in America was proof that the story and character transcend cultural stereotypes.

I think that if you go about making movies to win Oscars, you’re really going about it the wrong way.

To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.