[Jerome David] Salinger was really taken to the cleaners by nasty critics in his day. I think Joan Didion was one of the people who attacked him in a very unfair way.

I've had no money, absolutely, from my family. They paid for a good education - or schools that purported to be a good education - but, um, not a dime.

It becomes a lot better for the actors when we're 'shooting, shooting, shooting,' instead of waiting around in a trailer for something to happen.

I would say on the other side of the equation that there were really some massive sales and massive enthusiasm for some films that were given big releases. And I'm not really sure that happens in quite the same way, small films getting big releases. Maybe it still does, I don't know.

For me, the present is a golden era. That's the greatest golden era. Right now. I just like pining for lost times.

Find someone hypersocial and crazy and try not to follow them to their doom, but to make friends with their nicer friends.

There's some people who are just very dynamic about social life, and it can be some pretty crazy stuff, but you end up meeting people you like.