A straight factor is important in any comedy, because you need something to tee it up and also to ground it.
Acting is just playing the violin in an orchestra. Directing is being the conductor.
Actors are sellers, and I figured out a long time ago that if you wanted to work a lot, you had to be on the buying side.
As disciplined as I am, I'm also a huge hedonist.
Directing films is incredibly exciting to me.
Do you want to continue being great at being in your twenties, or do you want to step up and graduate into adulthood?
From here, we're going to take it up a notch and go for frozen yogurt.
Guys like Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn, Sacha Baron Cohen, they do things you love to watch. I like to do the other half.
I can't assume that my kid is going to make the best decision all the time.
I did a good bit of episodic television directing, but directing a movie is so much more complicated.
I didn't really watch 'Beavis & Butt-head' that much or 'King of the Hill,' but I was a huge 'Office Space' fan.
I don't feel sorry for people in the public eye getting eyed by the public.
I don't have anything to fix! I don't smoke, I don't drink, and I don't eat carbs. My life is just great now. Normal. Vanilla.
I don't worry about people misinterpreting my kindness for weakness.
I enjoy editing when I'm directing, but when someone else is directing, that's their film to cut.
Not many get a chance to hit the career re-set button.
If it's a good part in a good movie, I'll do it.
You want 100% and 100% to make 200, instead of 50 and 50 making 100.
I like to give my daughter some rope and let her make her own decisions.
When you're playing a supporting character, you don't really have a lot of control of the quality of the film.
I'm not talented enough to drop everything and become somebody different.
I love a massage. I'd go every day if I could. I don't need to be wrapped in herbs like a salmon fillet, but I do love a massage.
I remember my dad working with me on breaking down my script and writing out a back story for my character and all that stuff.
I think the Internet is a huge positive.
Nothing would make me happier than doing nothing but drama for the foreseeable future.
I was never at a place where rehab would have been appropriate.
I haven't met a lot of 'Hogan Family' fans.
I'm looking forward to playing Michael Bluth many, many more times.
