I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising.
And in a world without heroes, as the movie trailer voice-over guy might say, the slightly awkward can be slightly cool.
I have been in teen shows for years, so doing that stuff - kissing - is kind of commonplace and not a big deal. It was way more cool just because it was Meg Ryan.
Any time you end a relationship, and everyone has ended plenty in their life, it's always a tough thing and hard to get over.
My best jokes are so cheap. All I do is say things sarcastically.
I have a pretty lousy voice.
It helps if you don't date other actors, but actresses are beautiful. How can you say no?
I am super-proud to have a sort of famous character in my background that if you're a certain age, he was probably a part of your youth. I think that's pretty cool.
I'm a fake intellectual.
It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.
Well, I guess most people would only know me from The O.C. I did a few episodes of Gilmore Girls before that. I was also a client on a lot of lawyer shows.
There's no conversation more boring than talking about what it's really like to live in Newport and how the show compares to the real thing. I just don't care.
It's bad writing, however naturalistic it's written, that's where you have to do your best acting.
I wish I came from a more pure place. I don't have something to say from the bottom of my soul. I just know how to take stuff I like and repackage it in a slightly different way.
I like an interesting movie even if it's controversial or offensive, depending on your taste.
If I don't direct a movie at some point, I've failed personally.
I worry that I can come off smarmy. I wonder if I was listening to myself if I'd want to kick my own ass.
I've had to fight for roles and I've lost a hundred roles, but 'Smoking' and 'Smith' were phone calls. That's the dream.
I just want to be in good things that I want to see, and I want to work with talented people who are smarter than myself.
I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.
