I didn't tell anybody [had got a role at As Good As It Gets], because I was just going, "Well, that was the strangest audition. . . " And I just thought, "There's no way he gave me the job on the spot when there was a room full of other girls waiting to audition for it. " But then I didn't hear anything for a couple of days, so I finally called my agents, and they're, like, "Oh, yeah, congratulations! We know Jim [L. Brooks] told you in the room that you got it. "
Lou's such an old punk he was around when the Ramones were junkie hustlers first and musicians second, when punk meant something other than a mass-marketing concept designed to help the bridge-and-tunnel crowd feel cool.