I've always had this unresolved desire to prove that I could get a Ph.D., or contribute something else to the world.

Every film is its own experience, its own planet, its own family. It seems infinite when you're working on it, and then it's suddenly very finite, and it's done.

I have just enough attention to feel glamorous and important.

Americans are like Pac Man. We just eat our way through the day. There's always something going into the mouth.

As an actor, you hope to obtain this mind meld and sometimes I feel like I'm chasing a horse holding on to its tail and getting dragged, and other times I feel much more velcroed into the saddle. And I'm not the knower of which is better or best as a process, it's just as random as the weather in terms of what my subjective experience is.

For me, I don't even like to promote my films but I have to because it's in the fine print of my contract.

I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel.