There are some good people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all - it'll be ten o'clock and they'll tell you it's nine. You're looking at the clock and you can't even fathom why they're lying. They just lie because that's what they do.
Good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess.
I just love the process of working with other actors. It's like jamming with a musician, except it takes a little more effort to get to that place as an actor, because you have the cameras and lights and everything. But I love jamming with these people.
I read Noam Chomsky. I like some of Gore Vidal's stuff.
I was raised Catholic until I was old enough to say no.
I don't tend to think in terms of a moral authority - be a good boy, do good things - more in terms of what feels right.
Getting trapped back in the '80s, it's almost like a comic nightmare, which for me is a very real nightmare. Every time I flip through the cable, I have flashbacks.
Don't buy into the corporate mythology that's been rammed down our throats for all these years.
I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.
I try not to dwell on the past. I'm not a big go-back-and-try-to-relive-your-past kinda person.
I was never a joiner. I tried - I had people I admired and liked and wanted to hang with, but I ended up starting a theatre company and that took me back to Chicago... I guess I wasn't a scenester in the end. Something must have worked out right, as I'm still here - but I'm only a binge socialite.
I kept saying that I'd never live in L.A., and I didn't think I would. But that's where the work is, and I ended up making a lot of friends there, and my old friends moved out to Los Angeles too. And also, I think when you're famous, its hard to live in a small town.
I don't agonize over decisions as much these days. The criteria of what's important to me is clear. The insecurity that you feel, and the paranoia that you feel, have been around for a long time - you know it's a liar because it's been lying to you all along - every time you start something new.
I have a good friend who's a Texas girl; Texas girls are a whole different breed.
The elderly have so much to offer. They're our link with history.
But, you know, I'm sorry, I think democracy requires participation. I mean, I don't want to proselytize but I do feel some sort of duty to participate in the process in some way other than just blindly getting behind a political party.
Hopefully as you get older you get more selfless. That would be probably a good goal. I don't know if we do, though.
I'm not making any plans. I'm just going to let the universe surprise me.
I'm definitely nostalgic about the music of my youth; The Clash and Fishbone and that whole music scene. I still have all that music to this day. There was some great music going on in the late 70s and 80s.
Probably Lloyd in 'Say Anything' is the closest to me - or to who I was at the time. It was just a great love story about people in the '80s, and we all tried to make it feel as real as possible. It was such a wonderful time. We didn't leave anything in the gym; we put it all out there.
New York's like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it's like a Fellini movie or something.
I don't agonize over decisions as much these days. The criteria of what's important to me is clear.
I was only in one of the John Hughes films, and I never saw the other ones. I didn't understand them. I kept hearing a really hip 40-year-old person talking in teenagers' mouths.
The people who say they're for democracy want nothing to do with democracy.
Justice always has context.
