"I choose parts because I don't want to be embarrassed when the movie comes out. What if my friends w..." — Wallace Shawn

Children, I always think, are just putting on a performance of being naive and not understanding anything. I have worked with children in films, and they're treated as adults and they just drop the pretense of being children.

I led the life of an intellectual up until a certain age. I remember Freud's 'Interpretation of Dreams' was a big favorite when I was 11. It sounded so interesting. And it really was!

In real life, every person is the leading man or woman. We don't think of ourselves as supporting or character actors.

In terms of number of movies, I've been in an extraordinary amount. If you count only the minutes I'm onscreen, it's not so long.