With acting, you wanna see if you can get into trouble without knowing how you're gonna get out of it. It's like the exact opposite of war, where you need an exit strategy. When you're acting, you should get all the way into trouble with no exit strategy, and have the cameras rolling.

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.

Acting can be pretty challenging. I can't say making a romantic comedy is challenging, but to do anything well, you have to put yourself into it.

Well, any time you do anything good, it's man versus himself, right? That's the art, the challenge.

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

The ages two to 15 I spent at different stages of shortness. I didn't become a tall person until I was 16.

Usually I play people who just keep babbling on and on and on.