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" Comics, for me, is being able to sing alone in the shower. I find it freeing. You just pick up a pen and get to it. "

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" Old Americana vintage gangster stuff has a fantastical feel; it feels less dirty in a way. It feels like the opera of crime. "

" I think every young actor in Los Angeles went up for that role. It was between Frankie Muniz and me, and he pulled out, so I got the role. "

" There's a form of selling out. It's necessary. You have to become edible for people in Texas. You have to become edible for the Christian right, for mass audiences. "

" I was in a relationship with a girl I loved for three years. Where do you go after three years? Then you've got to start thinking about other things, and I'm too young to think about those things. "

" I want my audience to know me for my work, not because of who I'm dating or what drugs I'm on or what club I went to. "

" When people ask me about my story, I just go through the positive stuff: the tent-pole moments, the big landmark checkpoints. "

" I've been in fights, but that doesn't make me cool or like a tough guy or more interesting actor, I'm not proud of it. "

" Everybody's got stories. I don't want to not have stories. "

" No, I come for a hippy lifestyle, it's very open; my parents are both hippies. "

" I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful. "

" And if you're a golfer and you watch a golf film and Matt Damon swing, and it's not great, then you're not going to believe in the golf story, you're not going to believe in the rest of the film. That's the whole movie, so if that swing looks like crap, the movie's crap. "

" I have a great house. "

" Animation has completely changed, and I've always been a big fan. "

" Well, you don't make any demands to Steven Spielberg. "

" No, I was an unknown when I walked in that room. He didn't know who I was from a fly on the wall. "

" There will always be opportunities to be in love again. "

" Actors live dependent on being validated by other people's opinions. I don't understand what it is I do that people want. I don't know what an actor does. I have no credentials. I don't know what I'm doing. "

" I think envy motivates a lot of people. "

" I was the only white kid in my neighborhood for most of my youth even in high school, so reverse racism was just as apparent as racism. "

" You can't have bank holding companies acting as hedge funds. You can't have them taking a million-dollar pension plan for Joe Schmo the bus driver and treat it with the same risk appetite that you treat George Soros' pocket money. It's fundamentally ridiculous. "

" If I had more recreation time I would be able to step back and reflect on how life has changed. But it has been like a constant... boom, boom, boom, boom, boom! "

" I think I'm prone to not being a good guy in relationships. "

" In my parents' generation, rebellion was pop culture. It's not anymore. "

" I like the dark, mysterious, maybe even gothic type girls. They have to have a good personality too! I'm very picky! "

" If people perceive you as a good actor then they'll wish for you to be a good actor and they'll root for you when they watch you, but if you come out and you're going to clubs every night people don't root for you anymore. "

" I was always raised on cowboy films, and then when I could start making choices about the movies I wanted to watch I found myself wanting to watch gangster films which were slightly more sophisticated than the baseline stuff that was in westerns. "

" There's never been a parent in my life. "

" You can't buy back your respect; you can't buy back your career. You only get one, so I don't want to mess that up. "

" They're very, uh, you know, I don't come from the suburbs and a jolly, Disney type of lifestyle. I come from something totally different. And they're cool and bare minimum so it's not always a money issue for me. "

" I've learned a great deal about a certain type of filmmaking. But I have ambitions toward another type of filmmaking that I haven't been allowed to engage in yet. "