Quotes

About voicing Lancer in the Fate franchise: How is Lancer treated? Well, he dies early. In the game he does not; it's impossible to kill him in the game. [laughs] He's a character that's about chivalry and posturing and grand ideas, and those are always the most fun to kill early. So I think he gets treated fine, it's what he needs to be. Somebody's got to be that character, so it has to be him. But everyone who's been morally pure have kind of been the ones who get messed up the most. Look what's happening to Saber.

My opinion of the Fate franchise has matured. When I first worked on it in the original, first of all, I didn't like my character very much. I mean, I loved playing him, but as a person I didn't think he was... I didn't like him very much. So I kind of felt a little standoffish and it was also a little more steeped in some of the high school lore, where they come from, which has never been my cup of tea in terms of shows. When I started directing in Fate/Zero (2011), I got to be more intimate with it and got to see it in a larger perspective. And so in that respect, my opinion has changed quite a bit and it's expanded and it's grown to be my favorite franchise I've ever worked on. Particularly Fate/Zero really affected me a lot. It's grown and I've come to appreciate it more and more, the storytelling.

[on his favorite characters to play] Rick Hunter, of course, because it was my first series role and it's what I'm most known for after thirty years. Harry from Gungrave was my first villain, and it was a really difficult acting challenge because he's a guy who murders his brother and kills people and steals, but he has to be likable, too. And then Lupin, because, you know, he's Lupin!

[on Kari Walhgren] She's so good. She's one of those people, I reckon, I can tell her, "Look, you wanna play angry, but you're angry because you're embarrassed, because this person said something that you know is true but you're denying it." And she can play all of those layers. And you get it. It's like, "I've been doing this thirty years. How do you do it?"

I walked out of the booth, and I was looking at him, shaking my head, going, "Dude, I'm so sorry, I'm just exhausted, I just suck today", and Richard was directing, and Richard was like... [He imitates Richard Epcar's deep, drawling voice] "That's okay, buddy. We'll fix it tomorrow."

[on Dan Lorge as Zenigata] And I also love the affectation that Dan brought to it, which was... [He does an impression of Lorge's Zenigata, a pronounced Southern drawl] ... The constant, uh, the constant mumbling under his breath.