“I’ve got incredible support from my wife and family and people around me. I’ve got great people around me who handle anything on the outside, business-wise, who help free me up to create in my job.”

I say to the paparazzi, ‘Fellas, take your shot and go.’ It’s just they usually find me on a beach.

You don’t play characters that are celebrities – you play guys who know what to do when their septic tank’s blocked.

When I’m surfing, I’m sure not thinking about the paparazzi. I guess if they start getting on floaties and coming out there in the water, then I might be a little upset.

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin’ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

Starting at about, I guess, forever, I’ve always looked forward to getting older. When I was 14, I couldn’t wait to be 16 and get a driver’s license.

I’ve been in a couple of weddings where the coolest people that were the most day before so mellow and then the day of the wedding freaking out.

My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.

I personally don’t like to go see romantic comedies. But people do want to see them, and they seem to want to see me in them.

I love Los Angeles, and it’s been very good to me, but if everyone is running around telling the stories, who’s living them?

If you can be mentally stimulated by the workout and find out how to get through it, it’s more fun.

My lawyer has been a good friend of mine for a long time. He and I continuously have conversations.

I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone’s inside virtually going everywhere they want to go.

It’s not a science when you are judging art, but we’d be remiss to say you can’t look at something and say, ‘This is more well done than that.’

My last name is originally Irish. I’m not exactly sure whereabouts it’s from, but I’ve got family branches that were traced back there.

When you have good friends you’ve been around, every time they talk, you don’t give them your full attention.

Romcoms are hard in a lot of ways: they’re built to be buoyant. It’s easy to demean them.

There are about 30 words around you all the time, like ‘thread’ or ‘exit.’

The principle of order in me, around me, and in the world… I would watch the buds swell in spring, the mica glint in the granite, my own hands, and I would say to myself: “I will understand this, too, I will understand everything.

I don’t believe in reincarnation at all, but if all that stuff is true, then he might have been on his last time around.

Many, many individuals will report starting to form their lifelong interests around adolescence. Why that is, researchers don’t fully know. But if you can take a trip down memory lane and see what interested you, that’s at least a clue as to where your interest may begin to develop.

Who’s the world going to revolve around now?

The truth is, normal might take years. Normal might never happen. But its definitely not going to happen if i lounge around here watching soaps and avoiding life. Im going to school today, end of story.

The circle of an empty day is brutal and at night it tightens around your neck like a noose

You know, sometimes I feel like I walk around with a target on my back with the films I make.