I'm Just Selfish. I Have To Be

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.

There's No Room For Being A Visionary In The Studio System. It Literally Cannot Exist. You Give Terrence Malick A Movie Like Transformers, And He's F***ed. There's No Way For Him To Exist In That World... Lars Von Trier's Dangerous. He Scares Me. And I'm Only Going To Work Now When I'm Terrified.

I'm Still In The Middle Of The Transition. I'm Still In Man-boy Mode. And That Won't Go Away For A While. But It's A Fun Time To Be In, Because It's Very Rare That People Get To Work Through This Time. It's Rare To See A John Cusack In Say Anything. It's Rare That You'd Find An Actor Right In The Cusp Of The Child-to Adult Transition, Just Got Through Puberty, Just Getting Into A Different Way Of Life. There's Few Movies Like That, And Few Roles Like That, So It's Going To Be Tough To Pick And Choose. I Guess The Goal Is Good People, Work With Good People.

When A Gust Of Wind Hits A Broken Bone, You Feel It.

You Never Really Meet A Human Being Until You Live With Them Or Know Them For Awhile, So This Is My Clown And They Understand That And So These Interviews Don't Bother Them.