Trees Lounge is based on my own life. Both my parents like the movie. My father, of course, thinks it's a masterpiece.

My greatest hope was to get discovered as a comedian and get on a sitcom.

Casting is everything. Getting the person that you imagined is this character and then seeing what they bring to it.

I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that.

I never did improv professionally, but that was certainly in my training as an actor. I like it. Actually, when I did theater, I used to have a partner, and that was the way we used to write a lot of our sketches, through improvisation. So it's something I feel comfortable with.

I didn't really like the aloneness of doing stand-up.

By nature, I think I am a pretty private person, and that is what is hard even doing interviews for films that I really love doing, because in some ways, it diminishes the experience that I had.