I know as I'm taking my dying breath, the ambulance guy will ask me why they cancelled Action.

I love anything to do with ventriloquism and magic.

I had an obsession that I was male characters from movies.

I loved the idea of the Nerd as Hero, which Ghost World also had.

When we were doing a scene, lots of times we would collapse giggling because it seemed so silly because it felt like we were doing a home movie at times.

I love sketch comedy. My real goal is to do something with Albert Brooks. That would be my fantasy. I stay up night and day thinking up stuff he might find funny.

I met Patricia Neal, John Houseman. But I loved my grandfather because he was this kind, talented man.

It was an interesting way to come across in my first big role. To work with Robert DeNiro was very exciting.

I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, and then I only end up in two scenes. That's been very disappointing.

I'm a huge poster collector.

I'm a big fan of Albert Brooks, Nichols and May. I'd like to follow in their footsteps and do comedy films.

Every man carries his own past with him, " Hayt said.

Don't you know how, in talking a foreign language, even fluently, one says half the time not what one wants to but what one can?

When you're setting up a budget, a general rule is to start with your fixed expenses - your housing and insurance payments, and car payment, if you own one.

Art for me is a form of nourishment. I need the land. I need it.

When we’re young nothing offends us, except adults telling us what should. Then when we become adults, nothing offends us, except we are offended on behalf of our young.

Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself.

It was the craving to be a one and only people which impelled the ancient Hebrews to invent a one and only God whose one and only people they were to be.

If you run into a monkey in some idiot context, automatically you've got a very real problem taking place in the photograph.

Preserve your conscience always soft and sensitive. If but one sin force its way into that tender part of the soul and dwell there, the road is paved for a thousand iniquities.

The wonder of a free-market society is that we can all do our best to package our message in an entertaining fashion and present it - and then everybody votes with their footsteps.