I don't like watching people work if they're making art.

In high school and college, I was an athlete.

Maybe with "Californication" the character was partly based on Rick Moody. I read him and Jay McInerney, the templates for this bad boy novelist.

A lot of times passion projects or films are difficult to make because they don't have proven directors attached to them.

I got married a bit late, I agree. In any other period of history I'd have been dead at that age and they'd have assumed I was gay. Like Michelangelo, or Leonardo da Vinci. But I was a late developer. I didn't go through puberty until I was 35.

I enjoy comedy and I hope that people enjoy watching me do it.

I also watch a lot of really bad television when I'm writing, "Like Dancing With the Stars," with my daughter.