I think I'm actually much too shy to do any performance art. I admire the big swings those guys take, but I'm not a one-man band.
And I've always loved commercials. I like working out how to organically weave a brand's message into the writing process. It's like an improv show, where comics ask the audience to throw out a word and a skit is built around it.
Television is much more of a producer's writer's medium, so a lot of the time, when you're directing a television show, they have a color palette on set or a visual style and dynamic that's already been predetermined, and you just kind of have to follow the rules.
Pre-production and post-production is something that I've never been exposed to. I was pleasantly surprised that you could accomplish a lot during pre-production.
I'd much rather have the freedom, and the obligation to use it responsibly, than be put in a box.
Will Arnett is one of the funniest guys I know. He has seen it all and done it all and come out the other end pretty savvy and pretty strong.
Not a lot of people get a second chance. And I think for a while there, my name kind of got in my way a bit, based on all of the television I was fortunate enough to do. But after a while, you sort of wear out your welcome in that genre, in that medium.
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.
I have a tendency to evolve into William Shatner, with my big fat face.
I just love doing sitcoms. I'd be in them till I was gray if they'd have me.
If people are going to complain about stereotyping, it's as likely to be Italian-Americans as gay people.
People say: 'Why do you want to play the straight man?' Well, it's because he gets to be in every scene.
The comedy community is very friendly right now. I think that's why you see all the synergy and people doing each other's movies.
I played a ton of team sports growing up, and team wins are just incredibly gratifying.
A straight factor is important in any comedy, because you need something to tee it up and also to ground it.
I think anybody who's doing work in their teen years on TV or in the movies, you're a teen idol by default.
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.
Guys like Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn, Sacha Baron Cohen, they do things you love to watch. I like to do the other half.