I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American.

Good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess.

You just try to get the best jobs that you can get. Sometimes I produce my own movies, so that's your own sort of vision. That helps things. I don't know what it is. Probably just circumstance. I've definitely been aware of the fact that I want to do different things.

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.

Kitsch is more dangerous than it looks when taken to the extreme.

We've got to force the Democrats to get a spine. If they don't want to have a spine, we should throw them out. If they don't want to stand up for the rule of law, then I'm not a Democrat.

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