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I'm not talented enough to drop everything and become somebody different.

The kids can't watch 'The Wire,' but there's great educational stuff for them to watch on TV if it is TV time. There are great apps on the iPad that are interactive and educational.

When you're playing a supporting character, you don't really have a lot of control of the quality of the film.

People say: 'Why do you want to play the straight man?' Well, it's because he gets to be in every scene.

I can't assume that my kid is going to make the best decision all the time.

I try to figure out how much of the character I can find in myself because you don't want to get outside of your skill-set.

I didn't really watch 'Beavis & Butt-head' that much or 'King of the Hill,' but I was a huge 'Office Space' fan.

If you laugh, we just do another take. Laughter is too rare nowadays. If you can bust a gut, let it go, and we'll just go back to one.

I did a good bit of episodic television directing, but directing a movie is so much more complicated.

It's not new: In the '70s, Archie Bunker said terrible things on 'All in the Family,' but it was all in Carroll O'Connor's performance. You saw lack of intelligence, and you laughed.

I think it's always a good time to be in a political film in America because there's so much material for comedy.

If it's a good part in a good movie, I'll do it.

I don't feel sorry for people in the public eye getting eyed by the public.

Acting in something that I'm directing... I'm really enjoying it because, if for no other reason, that particular acting is like reading my mind on every single take. It's kind of efficient, for better or worse.

My father was a writer/director/producer, so instead of throwing a ball around, our bonding was going to see movies. And at an early age, I knew if I wanted to impress my dad, it was not going to be by throwing a ball real far.

I'm a pretty normal guy. I'm really good at knowing how a normal guy would react in situations.

We had this neighbor who was an actor, and he was going to an audition one day, driving by our house, and he asked if I wanted to tag along. He was reading for the part of the father, and they were reading for the part of the son the same day, and he told me to sneak in there and make it look like I knew what I was doing.

You do certain things in your twenties that are just not appropriate in your thirties and certainly not appropriate in your forties. Eventually you even the scales, and it's time to move on and become an adult and start working hard again and going to sleep a little bit earlier. Fortunately, I got a job to facilitate that transition.

I was doing everything that a kid would be doing anyway, but on top of that, I was able to fly to different cities.

I'm never happier than in the bed.

I think the Internet is a huge positive.