I teach a lot - I teach at the UCLA and USC graduate film programs - and a lot of those projects are my students' projects that I act in or I do a cameo.

You don't really prepare for a kissing scene.

I guess it's ironic. I just did the Gucci cologne ad, and I was the cologne thief in junior high.

Always have one artistic thing that is pure, at least one thing, where you don’t compromise. You can do other things to make money, but have one pure area.

When I started writing after my career as an actor, I knew that that other life in the film industry would be pulled into my writing life and that people would see me not as an author but as an actor starting to write.

I worked at a McDonald's drive-through. I could always tell when girls were interested: They'd drive around again and say, "I forgot something."

You say I sucked at the Oscars. I was a genius at the Oscars. That was experimental tuxedo sleep art.