If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.

Probably Lloyd in 'Say Anything' is the closest to me - or to who I was at the time. It was just a great love story about people in the '80s, and we all tried to make it feel as real as possible. It was such a wonderful time. We didn't leave anything in the gym; we put it all out there.

If you're a movie star, there's a cycle you go through: adoration, adulation, you're used, and then you're discarded. And it happens again and again, always in that sequence.

I think poets tell better history than historians. Historians lie all the time but the poets can get to truth of it.

People try to keep their past, like kind of holding on to their past. Every Springsteen song talks about that.

The British keep employing me, and that makes me like them. It also makes me think they're very intelligent.

Hollywood is just a bunch of people going around in Learjets to other people asking them if they've got any money? Well, they might have if they didn't spend it all on jets.