Being comedic is a skill, because there is a fine line where the context is important. And being dramatic is just being honest and real in that moment.

Drama is more focused and it reveals itself to you, whereas comedy is just right there, when you first read it.

In the end, the thing that really stays with you is not that you were clever enough to connect a sketch to another sketch, but what really sticks with you is when you just have an incredible moment happen, or execute a really funny idea.

We don't feel constrained by what we did in the past.

I think independent movies are actually very challenging right now, because it was this huge scene and it was great for a few years. Then, it was totally co-opted by the studios. Now, it's become very corporate, the independent scene.

You get to use everything you learned in movie business. You talk to actors, if you do it right - and I haven't always done it right - you should be shaping the material all the time. And the other thing is, you get all the blame when you direct and it doesn't work. You get slammed. So that's another reason to know what you're making, why you're making it, and make it the way you want.

We're all real people with moments of intense honesty and pathos and humanity. We all experience that, whether you're comedic or not.