People have a different idea of how movies are made than they really are. On a certain level, everyone throws ideas into the hopper. It's not like the actors are wind-up dolls that you push out onto the floor, play with, then put back in the box. You get people around you who you trust; the writer, the producer, the director and all the actors all contribute.

Sometimes I'm kind of spacey. I'm like Ferdinand the bull, sniffing the daisy, not aware of time, of what's going on in the real world.

When His Holiness won the Nobel Peace Prize, there was a quantum leap. He is not seen as solely a Tibetan anymore; he belongs to the world.

Things come out of nowhere, and you start evaluating the director, the cast, and all those other things going into it.

What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. We all lean towards love.

I tend to be a bit of a dreamer.

I have no sense of time, and I'm a dreamer.