I love these movies where it's just about the film. You don't have my face on the poster. It's all about the movie. I like that.

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 wanted to just be a filmmaker, and I thought I wanted to do all the aspects, and it seemed like as a producer was the best way to do it, because I could have... You never have control on a movie, but you have as much control as you can.

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

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.

I just love the process of working with other actors.