Obviously I don't hate America. I do believe that we are becoming - and I can only judge it by my lifetime, 'cause I don't know what it was like in the 1800s - but it just seems that as a nation, we are becoming really, really nasty, and not concerned with any kind of truth.
I don't read or watch anything that has to do with Lindsay Lohan.
In the rock n' roll world, I'm someone who's responsible and levelheaded.
I'm the Emily Dickinson of screenplays.
It's really hard to watch Leno. I set his chair on fire.
I do live a very Hugh Beaumont existence. I'm up every morning, taking my kids to school and all that, which obviously does interest me. But then it's taking meetings with goofballs and auditioning for crap, and then I spend a lot of time on the road.
I was really big in the '80s.
I was in Ann Arbor, and I was told that this singer-songwriter guy wanted to meet me. It was Kurt Cobain. Nirvana had just made 'Bleach.' Kurt interviewed me on a college radio station. It was very strange. He was a fan of mine, and he gave me his album.
I've probably done myself a disservice as a brand because the movies I've made. They've all been completely different.
Certainly, shows like 'Black Mirror' helped me. I should send them a fruit basket.
I've been making fun of administrations since I was a teenager onstage.
People go, 'Oh, Trump must be good for comedy,' and I go, 'Ehhh.'
If I was a young man, I might have bypassed the whole comedian-actor thing and just been a filmmaker. Then I'd probably have spent my whole life going, 'I wonder if I could have been a comedian.'
To make the films I want, I just have to live within my means and scale down my lifestyle - and be with somebody who's cool with that.
Which is worse - being a has-been or being the guy interviewing a has-been?
I don't get too hung up on what people think of me.
In the past, the movies I've made are perceived as dark, but a lot of comedies are way darker.
The movies I make, I never see them as accurately portraying a life, but more like fables.
Every week, there's a different equivalent of Charlie Sheen having a breakdown. I knew about Kim Kardashian getting married - and then getting divorced - and there's no reason I should. I don't have hostility toward Kim Kardashian - just toward the people who take that stuff seriously.
When I was at my most outrageous and destructive, I alienated almost everybody.
