There’s this phenomenon where people do like to announce movies that they think I’m doing that I’m not.

I think it helps the writers to sell their books if they announce my attachment. But it doesn’t mean that I’m going to make the movies in the next year or two or three.

There’s no relationship that I find that’s closer than a creative relationship.

We all age. You shouldn’t discount it as a subject for a film. Just because the characters are dealing with issues that you might not deal with for another 45 years doesn’t mean you won’t like it.

I’m starting to teach now: I teach in the graduate film program at NYU and next year I’m going to be teaching at Los Angeles at the film program and English program at UCLA.

It feels really sad, to me, to go to a dark bedroom. It’s like surrendering to the night or something.

Did you ever see Cheech and Chong’s Up in Smoke? That’s what happens if you really smoke weed and make a movie. You get two guys and no plot and it’s basically like, ‘Yeah! Let’s drive a van made of weed!’ And that’s pretty much the movie.

I actually don’t smoke weed, but I’ve played a lot of stoners – especially with Seth Rogen.

There’s a large chunk of me in all the parts. As an actor, I got involved largely because I want to let things out. The best acting is that that is most real and the only way to do that, is to genuinely feel it.

I’ve come to a point where I just want to do movies that I just believe in. I have come to an understanding of filmmaking, a new understanding where I believe it’s a director’s medium. That means working with people that I believe in.