When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature.
There’s an absolute prejudice that good movies are dramas and comedies are more dismissable. But I couldn’t disagree more.
Most scripts are bad. I read a lot of them.
I was just watching baby videos of me and I was obviously an exhibitionist.
I like making little videos and little records. I’ve always loved video cameras and four-track cassette recorders, still cameras, anything.
Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something.
Comedy takes a very specific technique, specific skills.
Actors didn’t use to be celebrities. A hundred years ago, they put the theaters next to the brothels.
I was studying for the SAT’s and learning lines.
I think some of the best actors ever were little kids.
My dad never blew anything up, but he probably had friends who did. He and my mom have always preached that the pen is mightier than a Molotov cocktail.
I’d been an actor my whole life, since I was a kid. And then, I quit for awhile and went to university. When I wanted to start acting again, I couldn’t get a job, and that was really depressing. So, I realized, at that time, that I have to take responsibility for my own creativity.
I have a really terrible sense of direction.
Celebrity doesn’t have anything to do with art or craft. It’s about being rich and thinking that you’re better than everybody else.
Sometimes what someone else does is really not what you expected them to do, which to be honest, sometimes doesn’t work.
Supermarket tabloids and celebrity gossip shows are not just innocently shallow entertainment, but a fundamental part of a much larger movement that involves apathy, greed and hierarchy.
When I was a teenager, if anyone recognized me for anything I did, it would ruin my day. I couldn’t handle it. It was some sort of neurotic phobia. I guess I was paranoid that people would treat me differently, or in an unfair way, because of my job.
Certainly the animation technology is growing like crazy. All media technology is.
Your heart has a little empty corner. You won’t even know I’m there – I’ll be very quiet.
I lost you when you left me to find yourself.