I've always been terrible on regular sitcoms with lots of jokes. I don't know how to tell jokes.

I think definitely people know me from playing creeps and weirdos, and I'm definitely looking to expand my range.

You have total control of it, and when you're an actor, you're subject to production design and costumes and directors and studio choices and producer choices, but when you're writing it, you're creating your own little world in your head, peopled with your little characters. No one is in there monkeying with it, at least not at first - though they will. With this and the other projects I'm working on, it'll have to be given away, and it'll have to be someone else's property.

My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.

Absolutely. I am a father, and I know best. If there's any question, just ask me.

I've always been terrible on regular sitcoms with lots of jokes. I don't know how to tell jokes.

Our society is all about focusing on the externals, "These people like me, I'm successful because of these people, they view me as being good" and we need to take that vision and instead of expanding it outwards we need to look inside ourselves.