I've decided I can't really control people's perceptions of me. All I can do is decide on what I work on and how hard I work on it..

I am not going to be the guy who's not pulling his weight..

I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I've actually been painting longer than I've been acting. A movie is a collaborative effo….

Japanese moe relationships socially dysfunctional men develop deep attachments to body pillows with women painted on them..

There's this phenomenon where people do like to announce movies that they think I'm doing that I'm not..

I feel there are so many things in this world that have been and are being created that I could spend the rest of my life thinking about, and I could….

I was being generous. Gia Coppola wasn't even a filmmaker at that time, but I asked her to do it, because I believed in her as an artist. And because….

All I know is that when I needed McDonald’s, McDonald’s was there for me..

I am actually turned off when I look at an account and don’t see any selfies, because I want to know whom I’m dealing with. In our age of social netw….

I'm starting to teach now: I teach in the graduate film program at NYU and next year I'm going to be teaching at Los Angeles at the film program and ….

I view filmmaking as a director's medium..

If you have a profession that depends on what you look like, you can't blame somebody for caring about that. It's part of their job. So it's vanity b….

When we were doing 'Freaks and Geeks', I didn't quite understand how movies and TV worked, and I would improvise even if the camera wasn't on me. I t….

I was kind of scared of failing at acting..

But I don't want to die! I have so much to do!.

I don't cast somebody that I think is like my younger self..

It's basically the best job in the world. If you're fortunate enough - and I consider myself fortunate - you get to work with your friends and you ge….

School allowed me to have outlets so that some of the pressure was taken off the acting. Every role in every movie, I used to live or die by. Once I ….

There is actually a huge suicide problem in Palo Alto schools, so obviously not all is well in paradise. High expectations, and the pressure to achie….

Not having any real direction, one writer would lead me to another..

I don't like sleeping in a bed..