Sometimes, I think I may be more recognizable because I'm character-looking.
When I did 'Lady in the Water,' the most exciting thing to me was to get to work with Bob Balaban - I couldn't leave the guy alone. I drove him crazy. He's fantastic and a hilarious guy.
I don't consider myself a very interesting person. I have the mentality of a supporting actor.
'Rosemary's Baby' is a real New York movie, even though you wouldn't necessarily think of it as one, though I do.
I want to be a villain with steel hands or something. I want to be the crazy, world-domination-obsessed villain. I would love to be a Bond villain.
I don't think film actors need training, really.
I remember when I was at the first showing of 'John Dies at the End' at Sundance, and I was talking to some of the people in the standby crowd who were outside and didn't have tickets. They were just waiting in line to see if they could get in. It was this whole gang of die-hard sci-fi wacko people, and they were just fantastic.
There is something pleasurable for an actor to produce something and not be in it.
Do you know Don Coscarelli? 'Bubba Ho-Tep?' That's one of my favorite movies in the world. And I love the 'Phantasm' movies.
I was the youngest child and got a lot more freedom than my brother and sister. I used to wander, doing my own thing under the radar, but I didn't get in bad, bad trouble.
Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background.
I mean, I'm not going to play the hero of something.
I've never not been proud of the work I was doing; I have nothing I have any shame about.
I really only started doing film in '97. I mean, before then, I just pretty much did theater.
The problem with getting injured when you get older is that it takes longer to recover.
I consider myself an atheist. My wife is Jewish. And I'm fine with my son being raised as a Jew. He's learning Hebrew and is really into it. I will talk to my own son about my atheism when the time is right. But there's a great tradition of Jewish atheism, there are no better atheists in the world than the Jews.
In a weird way, I like to find the quirkiness in ordinary things. I like to find what is ordinary in quirky people.
I did a movie called 'American Splendor', based on the comic book writer Harvey Pekar.