"My current project is my band, Population 1. We are writing, rehearsing and playing in Los Angeles"

"Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles"

"I think every young actor in Los Angeles went up for that role. It was between Frankie Muniz and me, and he pulled out, so I got the role"

"I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles"

"I do all kinds of roles - nerd, psycho, nerd, psycho, nerd, psycho - and occasionally someone kind of normal. It's weird, when I lived in Austin I was always cast as pretty normal people. But when I moved to Los Angeles I was immediately branded a psycho"

"Los Angeles has the greatest concentration of surviving movie palaces in the United States, yet most residents have never been inside one of them"

"If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic"

"I like the enthusiasm but not the insincerity of Los Angeles"

"Los Angeles is an industry town, and it has great facilities and personnel. The disadvantage is that everyone there seems to talk about the same subject matter"

"I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles"

"When I worked in Los Angeles covering hard news, very often when something important would happen I'd be off in the woods covering something unimportant, which was more interesting to me"