Usually I'm trying to turn something around or turn it inside out and see what's underneath. I know that probably sounds incredibly vague but I never set out to be likeable or funny or anything like that. I'm just trying to tell the story in the best way that I can and serve the writer because it's really about the writer.

My parents have been together for 65 years. They're both really stubborn. They're not quitters.

I like A&E. I like those corny intimate-portrait things. They're so kind of ingenious and artificial and soothing.

We're dodging bullets and this is right after we've just seen [inaudible] shot and we're running and the woman who John accused of being out to kill us and everyone thought he was kidding. When we see her she appears and she's after us.

I'm not comfortable with getting a job by being at the right Hollywood party; I'm not a terribly sociable creature.

It's the best part of the whole movie. John Malkovich with a pink pig is - you can't get better than that. Then John Malkovich alone and then you add a pink pig.

I have a child and I don't want to be at work all the time when he's small. I want to spend time with him.