I think you get the parts that people are comfortable with seeing you play. I get that. And I don't shy away from those parts.

A straight factor is important in any comedy, because you need something to tee it up and also to ground it.

I did a good bit of episodic television directing, but directing a movie is so much more complicated. And there's so much more responsibility because the medium is very much a director's medium. 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.

As an actor, you only get to work 15 minutes an hour; as a director you're fully immersed. It's incredibly more complex and challenging and I love it. I'm sort of a glutton for work and to direct something that I'm acting in feeds the vein.

I'm in bed by nine. Let's get on with it.

Directing a movie is the greatest job in the world. I could not be more envious of the guys who get to do it all the time.

I'm not a 'celebrity'. I'm not a big huge star and so when people see me it's usually to talk about something I've done and that's a great conversation to have.