I'm glad that it was so physical and so isolated

I think that the Japanese culture is one of the very few cultures left that is its own entity. They're just so traditional and so specific in their ways. It's kind of untouched, it's not Americanized.

I don't try to live the life of my character but I think it's inevitable that there is some carry-over into your life.

I grew up watching a lot of American television and so the American sound has been in my psyche somehow for a long time and is quite familiar and so that does make it easier.

The better you know yourself, the better your relationship with the rest of the world.

As far as kids go, at an early age they have to develop a sense of individuality. It's just something that everyone goes through. But I think the older I get, the more I appreciate the fact that we really are just so connected.

Being in the desert was brilliant and it was hard.