I just love the process of working with other actors. It's like jamming with a musician, except it takes a little more effort to get to that place as an actor, because you have the cameras and lights and everything. But I love jamming with these people.

All the choices we make in our life are pointless. There’s no escaping the inevitable.

I feel close to Lloyd in 'Say Anything'. He was like a super-interesting version of me. Only I'm not as good as him. Whatever part of me is romantic and optimistic, I reached into that to play Lloyd.

I try not to dwell on the past. I'm not a big go-back-and-try-to-relive-your-past kinda person.

There's also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration, which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America, but I remember as being a very, very dark time. There was apocalypse in the air; the punk rock movement made sense.

I'm not making any plans. I'm just going to let the universe surprise me.

I was a teen star. That's disgusting enough.