"'Alien' is a great movie. So is 'Close Encounters.' But I'm not the guy who goes out to the science-fiction festival. '2001's good."

"I'm half Jewish, half Scottish. It's hard for me to buy anything."

"I never, ever, ever cook. And I would never eat anything I might cook."

"I think Polanski's an amazing director."

"I'd love to direct more."

"You can go through life and actually speak your mind and do it in an articulate fashion and with a really intelligent point of view."

"In terms of likeability, that's something that I don't think about as an actor when I approach a role."

"I wouldn't succeed at musical theater."

"I don't think of myself as a TV actor. I think of myself as a film, television and Off-Off-Off-Off Broadway actor."

"I don't need my phone to play me music. I need it to be a phone and an e-mail thing."

"It's always like you write a poem when you can't really say what you're trying to say."

"Sometimes the better the writing, the harder it is to play because you really want to service it."

"I never thought about the actors on television or film, like what kind of life they had."

"I understand the self-loathing and the resentment, and the discipline that it takes to sit down in front of a typewriter or computer every single day, whether it's going well or not going well."

"I envisioned that as my life: staying in academia to make a living and then taking summers off to write my novels."

"I enjoy comedy and I hope that people enjoy watching me do it."

"It's hard to find scripts that know what they are from page one to page 115."

"I don't like watching people work if they're making art."

"I had a fear that I'd be typecast, but I don't really have that fear anymore."

"I love animals and I love working with them because they don't lie."

"I had to work in one of the most beautiful ski "resorts "in the world for almost three weeks. Pity me."

"I mean, there's chemistry in life and there's acting chemistry. I'm not saying they're the same thing, but they're as mysterious."

"Without whining and without making myself a tragic figure, there is no replacement for the loss of your privacy. It's a huge sacrifice."

"I don't believe in a conspiracy to hide the existence of extraterrestrial life."

"I don't want to know what happens in any movie that I go to see."

"I enjoy trying to figure out the best way to compliment the picture and not overpower it."

"I think we all choose our style from the ether and whatever is out there."

"In the U.S., oddly, we have images of men as arrogant and aggressive."

"I'm turning into a stricter dad."

"I don't make decisions based on money."

"I'm very proud of my Scottish blood."

"When I grew up, I was in Manhattan the whole time. But my kids have been all over the world."

"Actually, I have an interest in finishing my Ph.D., but I just know I never will."

"I drive an electric car."

"A lot of times passion projects or films are difficult to make because they don't have proven directors attached to them."

"I really enjoy taking an outdoor shower."

"I was about 26 or 27 and it was imperative that I make a living right away and it's hard to make a living on stage, so I started in television and film."

"In high school and college, I was an athlete."

"I feel like I came to acting late in a way."

"Games, by nature, have more plot options and non-linear qualities than TV and film."

"I love the Lower East Side."

"I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do."

"I'm trying to protect what I advertise. That's my stance on any kind of self-expression."

"Most journalists expect me to answer all their questions about aliens and spaceships."

"You become tyrannized by this notion that women must not only be treated equally, but they must never fail."

"If my work was good enough, I would never have to do publicity."

"Maybe the best things about celebrity are the things like being able to get that seat on the plane that you wouldn't normally get, but that's kind of like cheating."

"There's nothing wrong with acknowledging the panoply of life's rich experience."

"I think people are always trying to demystify whatever acting is, so they want to know what your method is."

"I'll instinctively know that I identify with a character."