[on celebrity] "I have a healthy fear of it. I`m not into the celebrity culture aspect of being an artist. To me it represents extinction. The more people know about you, the less they want to try to figure out what you have to say in your movies, and the...
I`m aware of the affection those characters inspired. I feel close to Lloyd in Say Anything... (1989). He was like a super-interesting version of me. Only I`m not as good as him. Whatever part of me is romantic and optimistic, I reached into that to play ...
I`ve made 10 good films. The ones that suck I tend to blank out. It`s like I never even made them. Well, there aren`t 40 that are great, put it that way. But that`s fine. Ten is a good batting average. (2007)