Katie Dippold, who I wrote the script with, she's very into ghosts and all that. So I go, "Hey, why don't you talk to Katie?"

I couldn't be happier to not be acting. I miss it, but I don't miss the auditioning or trying to get work.

One of the biggest things you have is your reputation and your reputation with knowing what's good and what's not good.

What's great about the geek spirit is that life never seems to stop us, and they never seem to kill our enthusiasm, our optimism and our hunger to experience the world. We keep our sense of humor, we protect our dignity, we talk to our friends about the experience and then we start again fresh the very next day.

What's so great about working with really funny women is that vanity comes second. Whatever makes it real and funny, they're going to go for, and it's just great.

In my years of acting, the one thing I was never able to do convincingly was to laugh on camera. Fake-laugh.

The hard thing is getting people to come to the theater to see something, no matter if it's good or not.