People who wear glasses, without them they always look unfocused, vulnerable. Out in the open. A layer removed.
Most of my freshman year at USC, I'd just been partying, and I had zero direction.
I'm all over the place.
When I was at graduate school, you wouldn't have recognised me. I was so different - and not a nice person: a grumpy, surly, upset, confused, lost person.
'Slacker' is so not about navel-gazing.
I get easily distracted and become a bit of a giddy giggler. I'm not good at taking myself seriously, and laughing at myself helps ease the pressure.
Pertschuk, you're like a cross-eyed javelin thrower. You never hit anything, but you keep everybody on the edge of his seat.
Addressing Federal Trade Commissioner, Michael Pertschuk
I have a character failing. I am quite incapable of identifying with anything whole-heartedly. Whatever I am doing, I am always planning to do something else. I would rather travel than arrive.
Once a fighter becomes enamoured with another, to the point where they can't perform and compete, you have got problems.
I was one of those people who just flitted about in life. I had no plans and no sense of direction.
I'm the sort of person with a very short attention span, and I lose interest in things very quickly.
I never feel like there's any one point to the film, to anything, to any of the movies I've made.
I don't really dream, I space out during the day - that's one of my problems wonder off when someone's talking to me. I can't remember any dreams in my life. There's so much strange in real life that it often seems like a dream.
I don't have a goal.
MIA stands for 'missing in action,' which is the way others can experience you when you're too busy multi-tasking, being pulled at by the world and by everything that's going on in your head, and, essentially, when you're too busy being busy.
It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.
I'm not really a goal-oriented guy.
I'm one of those people that you have to keep your eye on or I'll wander off into the woods and forget to come back.
The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station.
I was kind of lost for several years.
I'm not, like, always focused; I'm very unfocused. I'm reading, and then I'm looking at my phone, and then I'm on the Internet.
I find it really hard to stick to one thing because I'm so fickle and I like to change my mind a lot.
Definitely scatterbrained. I internalize a lot of thoughts, and sometimes it seems like I'm not listening or totally zoned out, but I'm always on a loop of ideas and song titles. I'm definitely kind of a space cadet, but I'm very laid back.
Unlike most kids in Japan, I didn't have a dream. I wasn't ambitious.
I'm pretty drifty.