If you can't categorize a film for a studio, it's really difficult for them to wrap their heads around it and give you the money.

I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make.

I didn't have a teenage or early-20s experience that was free and without worry. I missed the screw-everything, have-a-good-time phase.

The joke or the pratfall is easy for me to do.

I was raised in Washington, DC in a household where one parent was a Republican and the other was a Democrat, so I got both sides.

I think a lot of actors, comedians, musicians, artists are drawn to this world, because you're allowed to excavate whatever it is that you're struggling with, and hopefully turn it into art.

Forensics I've always found absolutely fascinating. Anything to do with clues. And checking things out and solving.