I can't sit through plays and musical theatre. I just want to run up onstage and mess up their hair and turn over the furniture.

To tell you the truth, I don't ever talk about characters as separate from myself.

Acting is playing - it's actually going out on a playground with the other kids and being in the game, and I need that. Writing satisfies that part of myself that longs to sit in my room and dream.

I always wanted to play a lawyer.

Somewhere along the line we stopped believing we could do anything. And if we don't have our dreams, we have nothing.

Nowadays the movies that people are going to see in the theaters are the big-event movies, like Spider-Man or something, or they're 25-year-old models who are vampires, or they're very broad comedies, or they're standard action movies. So if you're going to work for a studio and do a movie for the budget that the movie needs, those are the kinds of movies you'll be in.

I figured I would have to tell someone to kiss my ass before it was all over, and I have -- twice.