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I try to see everything I do. It's a good learning tool for me. You kind of remember what you were going for when you were shooting it, and then see how it comes across in the context of what comes before and after it.

It was a blast. I was doing everything that teenagers do and everything people in their twenties do. I was playing as hard as I was working, which was an effort to really balance my life.

You want 100% and 100% to make 200, instead of 50 and 50 making 100.

I really empathise with some of my peers who had success in the early years; then it dries up, and so there's no reason to get up in the morning.

My father was a director and producer, so when I was a little kid, he would take me to movies and show me what's good and what's not good and why, and often that would take me to a conversation about directing.

Nothing would make me happier than doing nothing but drama for the foreseeable future.

I'm not that great of an actor, so I can't, like, completely become somebody else.

There's a bunch of different flavours of funny. It's all about the execution of it.

I wanted to be Dustin Hoffman or Robert De Niro or Al Pacino. I thought I was going to be a dramatic actor, but comedy sort of started out first, and I was like, 'Maybe I'll find some more drama later on in my career.'

Our kids will never have to remember things, because it's all in pictures. Want to remember your fourth birthday? There'll be video of it on your phone.

I just think technology is pretty amazing. Like all things that are great, you have to be responsible about how much you use it.

It's not a sprinter's approach. It's more like a long-distance thing. You can stick around a lot longer if you kind of slow-play it.

If you're stumbling out of a bar, and people tweet about it, well, don't be dumb. If you're going to get falling-down drunk, stay at home - which I did a lot of.

Acting has always been very comfortable for me, so it allows me to pay attention to other parts of the process literally while I'm acting.

Pre-production and post-production is something that I've never been exposed to. I was pleasantly surprised that you could accomplish a lot during pre-production.

Directing films is incredibly exciting to me.

Actors are sellers, and I figured out a long time ago that if you wanted to work a lot, you had to be on the buying side.

You can say your lines a million different ways and play your character a million different ways and still hit the common, agreed-upon finish line.

If the goal is to be believable when you're acting, I've got the best idea of what that believability might look and feel like. And because you need a normal guy in a comedy so that the eccentricities can pop, that's a good part for me.

I wasn't really interested in doing anything except going from pilot season to pilot season and sowing my oats in the months between and telling my agency to stop sending me movie scripts, because they'd pile up in my house and make me feel guilty because I had to read them.

I think NBC got a little reluctant to get behind single-camera shows after 'Scrubs' didn't do what they thought it was going to do following 'Friends.'