I'm a New Yorker, you know.

To me, Fight Club was a comedy. When [David] Fincher sent me the book and I read it, the first thing I asked him was, "This is a comedy, right?" he said, "Yeah, that's the whole point," and I said, "Okay, I'm in." I certainly wasn't imagining myself as a dramatic actor when I was running around in my underwear in that film.

Everyone keeps saying the western's dead, but it's not.

I knew Danny DeVito and he knew me, so he wanted me to try Death to Smoochy. I loved that stuff and had a great time doing it.

Screenplays aren't written to be read, they're written to be made into movies.

With Edward Norton you'd never say, "This is the one we're going with whether you like it or not." It has to be agreed upon.

I tend to have a kind of tunnel vision when I'm looking at an individual piece.