Quotes by Jason Schwartzman

“I thought it would be good for me to do something bigger, more bombastic, more physical. I had a blast making the film.”

“It was tricky. I was nervous,”

“He just nailed it, ... I dont know how he nailed it; thats why hes Steve Martin ... hes a scientist of the heart, or something.”

“You feel like a grown-up, but Ive felt like a grown-up since I was 17, so I dont know ... But, I like it.”

“It looks like fish tank rocks,”

“It looks like fish tank rocks. Chocolate rocks! ... If you catch the pun.”

“[Having known Sofia for much of his life, Schwartzman had a few insights into how she works on the set.] Shes an incredible director, ... One of her strengths is that she talks to each actor differently and works with them specifically. She is like Steve actually in that shes very precise in what she says and shes a great observer and connector of emotions and truths and memories. We have so much personal history and a well of things to reference that we were blessed for her to be able to come up and say Its kind of like that and I know exactly what shes saying and no one else maybe would even understand it. It was helpful.”

“I had a great book and a great script to work as my raw materials, but when I got out on to the set and I started to act with Claire, that was when the character came out of me, ... So a lot of my character really [Schwartzmans character] Jeremys skeleton, but she was like an X-ray machine, and you could see it all of a sudden.”

“I had a great book and a great script to work as my raw materials, but when I got out on to the set and I started to act with Claire, that was when the character came out of me. So a lot of my character really [Schwartzmans character] Jeremys skeleton, but she was like an X-ray machine, and you could see it all of a sudden.”

As far as loneliness, I feel Los Angeles and its layout, having to drive everywhere - it is a lonely place. Its an isolated city in that respect because youre driving to places alone listening to the radio.

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

I dont know the first real thing about the dating game. I dont know how to talk to a specific person and connect. I just think you have to go to person by person and do the best you can with people in general.

Dating is just awkward moments and one person wants more than the other. Its just that constant strangeness. I think its a very real thing.

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