I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.

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.

Sweep the broomOver sand and stone.Softly, gently, Brush away the dust.Listen to the leavesAs they sing in the tree.Peace fills the soulWhen living well.

In their faces--plenty of them were handsome, but ruined--I've seen the remnants of who they almost succeeded in being but failed to be, before becoming themselves.

We have always felt the sympathy of the world, but we would prefer the respect of the world to sympathy without respect.

We are blessed and sustained by what is not said

Rejection process is not fun. It's the red pen on the page, the discarded sketch, sometimes is the only way forward.

Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e'en now, e'en now, we die.

Spring comes: the flowers learn their colored shapes.

It is now time for our nation to frustrate the wild dreams of the whites.

I love going to the cinema, listening to music, yoga and long walks along Holkham beach in Norfolk.

Just when you're beginning to think pretty well of people, you run across somebody who puts sugar on sliced tomatoes.