In independent film you tend to have stories that involve more of a community, and the smaller characters are important to the story.

A lot of the things I've enjoyed the most and that I think have been the best are ensembles.

I will be always grateful to NBC.

In independent film you tend to have stories that involve more of a community, and the smaller characters are important to the story.

When you walk on the set, whatever it is, you commit yourself to the job. You're committing yourself to doing the best you can do with it, no matter what you feel about it, and that never changes.

What I didn't realize is that the writing process for comedies is that you do your table read, and if you aren't funny on that first day during the table read, they take your jokes away and give them to somebody else.

I'd never done any film or television. Well, I'd done one little stupid commercial in Boston when I was doing theater, but that was it.