I love The Office. I think it`s the funniest thing - Ricky Gervais is possibly the funniest person I`ve seen in my entire life.
[On Hollywood`s initial response to his Garden State (2004) script] Everyone said no. Everyone with a date book and a phone in Los Angeles said no.
I was kosher until I had my Bar Mitzvah, and I parlayed officially becoming a man into telling my father I wanted to eat cheeseburgers.
Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with. Everyone has a warped vision of Hollywood and what success in Hollywood is like. That you love cocaine and that you spend every night in orgies with models. If only it were true.
When you are writing a script, you can`t help but stop and daydream about which actors are going to play the parts, and I kind of imagined Natalie Portman. Not just because she is beautiful, because obviously she is, but she is a wonderful actress who hasn`t had a chance in a long time to show the world how talented she is.
(On working with Woody Allen) That was a very surreal experience: I had studied the script right down to the punctuation marks, and then he would say `we`re not going to say what`s on the page, and you don`t really have to either, try to keep up.`
[On his MySpace.com Blog] I`m not sure when or why the tabloid angle on me was decided that I am a cad. I would have much rather it had been that I am secretly a dentist or that I love soup. I am in fact, merely doing what every other single 32 year old man in NYC is doing this summer. I am dating. If you must read that stuff, please don`t digest it as fact. It is probably one of the only real shitty things one has to get used to when living in the public eye, but I suppose one of the benefits of this blog is that you can hear it directly from me.
My mother`s a psychologist, my stepfather`s a psychologist, my stepmother is a therapist and my dad`s a lawyer. So it was all prominent in my life. I don`t know anyone who doesn`t know someone on some form of prescription medicine.
(Responding to E!`s Ted Casablanca, when asked what he thinks of studio heads) They put all this money into these huge movies, and then no one goes to see them. That sort of shows that they`re out of touch. Then, everyone in town passes on my little movie, and it does really well.
Maybe that`s all that family really is, a group of people who all miss the same imaginary place.
I`m kind of jealous of the life I`m supposedly leading.
Actually when I gave out the script, I gave it with a CD of all the music I wanted to put in the movie, and again, we never thought we'd get all that music.
Gay men in L.A. are all a bunch of tens looking for an eleven.
I always liked the story of Noah's Ark and the idea of starting anew by rescuing the things you like and leaving the rest behind.
I am really driven, but my drive doesn't effect the conversations I have in my head about life, and my worries and fears and insecurities.
I didn't necessarily have a total idea when I was writing the movie of where everything was going. I just wanted to have really realistic dialogue and write like people I knew talked. I tried to keep it very real.
I have a great relationship with my parents. I have not been on lithium.
I said, I'm on this TV show and I love doing it, but I don't want to be known always as the silly "Scrubs" guy. So part of me was like, You know what? Life's short. Let's go for it.
I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.
I'm by no means condemning prescription medicine for mental health. I've seen it save a lot of people's lives.
It used to be that you came out of school, and you got married - those who were going to get married. But my peers are getting married in their early 30s, so now there's like this extra 10 years of that angst.
The way I write is that I'll actually have a conversation out loud with myself. In a weird way, I just kind of get schizophrenic and play two characters.
I love Scrubs. It's the best day job in the world
That was a very surreal experience: I had studied the script right down to the punctuation marks, and then he would say 'we're not going to say what's on the page, and you don't really have to either, try to keep up. (On working with Woody Allen)
When you are writing a script, you can't help but stop and daydream about which actors are going to play the parts, and I kind of imagined Natalie Portman. Not just because she is beautiful, because obviously she is, but she is a wonderful actress who hasn't had a chance in a long time to show the world how talented she is
My mother's a psychologist, my stepfather's a psychologist, my stepmother is a therapist and my dad's a lawyer. So it was all prominent in my life. I don't know anyone who doesn't know someone on some form of prescription medicine.
I'm not sure when or why the tabloid angle on me was decided that I am a cad. I would have much rather it had been that I am secretly a dentist or that I love soup. I am in fact, merely doing what every other single 32 year old man in NYC is doing this summer. I am dating. If you must read that stuff, please don't digest it as fact. It is probably one of the only real shitty things one has to get used to when living in the public eye, but I suppose one of the benefits of this blog is that you can hear it directly from me. (On MySpace) |
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