Usually when you're playing a character, you think a lot about their backstory.

Nowadays the movies that people are going to see in the theaters are the big-event movies, like Spider-Man or something, or they're 25-year-old models who are vampires, or they're very broad comedies, or they're standard action movies. So if you're going to work for a studio and do a movie for the budget that the movie needs, those are the kinds of movies you'll be in.

Sometimes I have songs born out of stories.

I write songs on guitar and that's about how good of a guitar player I am. I can write songs on it.

They always say 'Is there going to be a sequel to Bad Santa?' and you know, I mean, a long time ago they would talk about, you know, we're going to do a sequel to that but it was never serious. And they said 'Would you do it?' and I said out of all the movies I've done, that was a lot of fun, and maybe I would do a sequel if it ever came up and it made sense, but I said I don't think that's ever going to happen.

I've been largely an improvisational actor for most of my career.

Sometimes we don't want the bad guy to get caught because otherwise the story is over. You want to at least see it through to the end.