As a writer, I haven't delved into dramatic writing. As an actor, I could always, even more so than comedy, do drama.

Writing is as big a part of my career as acting is, financially and time wise. So, yeah, I love it. That's all I wanted to do since I was young was be a writer. So that and acting are the two most important aspects of my career.

I am a filmmaker fanatic. I have never been star-struck by an actor once in my entire life.

I realized I never played a character that was skilled at anything, or skilled at anything that I couldn't become skilled at.

You have more of a responsibility to make the audience laugh. In comedy, we do have to say, "All right, it's been two minutes in the film. We need another laugh here." With drama, there's no pressure in that regard. It's a different kind of pressure, but it's not like we need to make someone laugh.

If you're trying to make someone happy, you gotta try and make them happy. If you're trying to have a normal conversation, you've got to have a normal conversation. If you're trying to make them sad, you've got to make them sad. I think that's how you get real performances out of people.

I want to meet the man who saw a turtle and said, "People will LOVE the ninja version of that."