There's something really vulnerable about playing something that you like for someone. You don't know what their reaction will be.

I grew up in the heat of '70s postmodern fiction and post-Godard films, and there was this idea that what mattered was the theory or meta in art.

I think I was going through a lot of change at 27, but I didn't know it was happening until it was over.

Will Ferrell's made a lot of brilliant movies.

We all have these notions of cool that come about at different points in our lives, and it's interesting in how it evolves or doesn't evolve in different people.

If you don't feel good about something, you don't shake it off easily.

There's always some generational-guys-hanging-out movie that is made every few years, I think, and some of them are great.