Jason Schwartzman Quotations

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 get to a certain age, and you feel like you know who you are, and how you fit into the world, and how the world sort of perceives you. And you get pretty set in that. And then things can happen that can turn it upside.

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

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

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.

I don't know the first real thing about the dating game. I don't 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. It's just that constant strangeness. I think it's a very real thing.