I'm quite comfortable looking at myself in movies, probably because I've been doing it for so long, since I was a kid. So I sort of watched myself grow up and go through adolescence, like, basically on camera.

I was watching TV, and there was this oldies-but-goodies film fest, and 'Lucas' came on. I was like, 'Oh my God, I'm an oldie!'

When I did the film Generations, in which the character died, I felt like a guest for the first time. That made me very sad.

A series is filled with compromises.

I did a movie in Esperanto.

My site has the whole thing - blogs, information, video interviews.

Gradually the live TV scene simmered out, replaced by film, and that took place in L.A. So many actors left New York.

The problem is I don't know anything or anyone. I am so focused on the immediate picture in front of me.

I'm anxious to make another film.

I left 'Saturday Night Live' without a film to go to, and I'd filmed 'Old School' while I was in my last season of the show, and that hadn't come out yet. I was a free agent, in a way, but I knew it was time to leave the show and test the water.

'Elf' has become this big holiday movie, and I remember running around the streets of New York in tights saying, 'This could be the last movie I ever make,' and I could never have predicted that it'd become such a popular film.

James Caan told me at the end of filming 'Elf' that he had been waiting through the whole film for me to be funny - and I never was.

I've always loved watching the news on TV. As a kid, I loved watching Walter Cronkite, for some reason.

I will watch a movie that is quote unquote dark and not get the qualification of what is dark and what is not.

You tend to get reluctant to talk about anything until the day before filming.

There are roles I am never considered for. Meryl Streep roles, let's say. Why not? I really wanted to do 'Ironweed,' for example, because the depression era in this country was one of the best for multiracial people, because everybody was poor. Everybody lived in the tents, and under buildings, and under gratings, together.

The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.

The film is the first art form capable of demonstrating how matter plays tricks on man.

If there's anything that I've always said about myself is that to me, it's much more important for me to get to work with filmmakers that I've grown up loving and admiring.

Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandaled feet.

“Theatre is the most democratic side of literature.”

"We have to do a film parody for Comic Relief. We can't decide which film to parody at the moment. Any ideas welcome, but not Spiderman owing to costume being too tight."

"Theatre outings are my favourite thing to spend money on. The most influential play I saw was 'Bent,' which starred Ian McKellen. And I loved the original performance of 'The Rocky Horror Show,' with Richard O'Brien and Tim Curry at the Royal Court, when I was about 15."

"The theatre is one of those muscles - if you don't exercise it, it becomes a strange and truly fearful place."