I wouldn't be surprised if some day, they put the Simpsons in the Smithsonian. It's become part of our culture, those characters.

I've made a kind of pact with myself where I said, It doesn't matter what it is as long as I'm acting.

I'm blessed in my good friends, and some of them happen to be writers, though that's almost never what our friendships are about. And every writer I've ever read, living or dead, has in one way or another helped and inspired. I have a feeling it's important not to mix the two up.

Revolution may not be pro-Western or democratic.

'Speed' and 'Point Break' were a lot of running and jumping, and then 'The Matrix Trilogy' had a lot of fights and wire work and green screen elements.

There is no terra incognito left.

I was on the pro-Nirvana, anti-Pearl Jam bandwagon.

But remember, I am no politician, and no seer into souls.

For me, writing is a parenthesis where I can make sense of life.

My dad doesn't hug me enough!

What I say should always be prefaced with this: I'm not really politically articulate. I just try to be like Thomas Paine: what is common sense? So when I say these things to you, I am speaking from a humanist point of view. I just look around and see what's wrong.

I've never been reckless - it's always calculated. I'm mischievous, but I'm calculated.

That's one of the fun parts of becoming an actor: You can become whoever you want to be.

My first love is writing and producing. So I sometimes put my own stuff off to work on other people's projects.

Instead, most colleges are studies in obsolescence.