Jason Schwartzman Quotes

I didn't have an agent, I didn't have a headshot. I didn't even know if anyone would know where to find me. I just went back to high school and started playing with my band.

I'm a creature of habit. I go to restaurants all the time and stuff.

Also, the more you're not focused on showbiz and instead focused on life, learning about other people, and keeping your eyes open and trying to be aware of the world.

In a city where you walk around, it's impossible to plan your day and your life as accidents will happen, you'll overhear things, bump into people, and take unexpected turns.

I believe in not over thinking things too much. When the right thing comes along, you really don't have a choice.

Man, I hate to get depressing on you, but I don't have a game. I'm so alone, so depressed, so dark, no.

There's all these ways to instantly communicate - cars, computers, telephone and transportation - and even with all that, it's so hard to find people and have an honest communication with them.

I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think it's just as much about loneliness.

Steve Martin is such an exquisite and precise writer. Everything is so clear; it's like a bell. He says what he means and says it so beautifully.

At this point, I think I would garner a lot of hate mail if I was now on the cover of Modern Drummer seeing as I'm not a modern drummer anymore.

Dating is just awkward moments and one person wants more than the other. It's just that constant strangeness. I think it's a very real thing.

I always tell people that to be the funny person in a Steve Martin movie is like getting a call that Keith Moon wants you to play drums on his record. He should be playing drums on his record.

In one sentence, I'd describe myself as indescribable. But, I wouldn't end it with a period. I'd end it with three dots.

Logic plus logic equals the illogical. Do you know what I mean?

But actually, I'm planning on moving to New York this year and I can tell you one reason why I think New York is incredible: I think things happen to you that you don't expect have happen to you.

It's funny that people think because you don't have a movie or record out, you disappear into a frozen chamber someplace. They think you're dead when you're not in the public eye.

Every actor I ever meet goes, 'Ultimately I plan on having my own company and write and direct,' but yes, I too would love to write and direct a movie. I want to do a play, too. I want to do it all.

I've never invested myself properly in trying to write stories. When I write lyrics, mostly I write each sentence separately on an index card and then I lay them out and I just mix them up.

It was always hard for me to really make friends, but that's just because I like to stay home.

What I love about lyrics is that they don't have to be very complicated. A good sentence over a great chord with a good melody - all you need is that one moment.

I admire the actors that truly can impersonate someone - become someone, inhabit someone. It's amazing when you see it done.

What I think is so great about interviews, is when people cite inspirations.

You can learn a lot of things from being in movies.

I often wonder, Is it worth waiting only for things you think are going to be truly great, or is that a pretentious attitude to take?

Making a movie is a weird combination of planning and the absolutely unexpected.

I love the idea of playing a character that didn't over think everything. He knows what's in front of him and he has an ability to just say whatever he felt.

I have never stopped playing music.

I just find that the harder you work and the more effort you put into yourself, the better you'll be.

When my first daughter was born, I had to figure out a new way of [making music] so that I wouldn't wake her up.

Whereas I think in New York every step is a detour in every direction.

Writing is like building a bridge while you're on it. If you step forward you fall off and there's nothing in front of you.

I'm a very slow reader, and books of interviews are an absolute favorite of mine.