I always liked it when people go back in time to discover things about themselves, like with 'A Christmas Carol' and you're getting a tour of your life by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future.

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.

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

In the United States, we can talk about ISIS, but we can't talk about Palestine.

I've seen the people who talk about their love lives in print invariably have doomed relationships with the person they're talking about.

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.