Acting is just playing the violin in an orchestra. Directing is being the conductor.

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.

I think anybody who's doing work in their teen years on TV or in the movies, you're a teen idol by default.

I just love doing sitcoms. I'd be in them till I was gray if they'd have me.

It is one of the few elements in the process that a director really, really can't control: an actor's performance. If you have a director that understands that, it's comforting to an actor. You're starting the relationship more as a collaborator, rather than as an employee or some kind of a soldier trying to execute something you don't organically feel.

I'd worked so hard that by the time I was 20, I wanted to play hard. And I did that really well.

Improvisation, for me, is when the cameras start rolling, we don't know where we're going and let's just waste people's time and money.