I come from a pretty strange family.

It was an interesting way to come across in my first big role. To work with Robert DeNiro was very exciting.

I loved the idea of the Nerd as Hero, which Ghost World also had.

I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.

I love sketch comedy. My real goal is to do something with Albert Brooks. That would be my fantasy. I stay up night and day thinking up stuff he might find funny.

I learned that a television show is not a collaboration. You give your 180 percent, but you do not question the show-runners. I remember doing a reading, and my part was kind of small that week, and I commented on it, and the next week, they cut me out of the show. So I learned that you never ask questions. In TV, you always assume you're going to be fired.

I like doing movies that relate to people's experience.