It's fun when you create a world to inhabit it and see the other characters from grounds eye view.
Production for movies or TV is very painstaking and slow.
My impulse is to create an aesthetic that's about a humanistic approach to a world and trying to create compassion for all the characters.
I can be really annoying, but I also feel like I'm a nice person.
I think I'm more of an absurdist than a satirist. I think I'm more of a - humanist? I hate to say it!
The things that drive me crazy are coming from this place of people suffering because of people polluting into rivers or whatever. It's not simply just about systems; it's an emotional reaction to seeing animals or people suffering.
You want to work with people who you like and have an easy rapport with.
Most of the shows I've worked on have aired three times and are in the dustbin of history.
Sometimes when you write something on the page, it can seem very funny, but when you act it out - and this happens to me a lot, actually - the melancholy of the situation becomes more front and center.
It's fun as a creator to make something that allows multiple interpretations.
I just think there are certain men who feel like engaging in a story told from a female point of view is somehow a feminizing experience. And that itself is something that they're almost supposed to not want to engage.
There's something very touching to me about someone almost communicating to themselves in some way - trying to come to some deeper understanding of yourself and having compassion for yourself.
I remember I grew up in Pasadena in a very, kind of, homogeneous, kind of, suburban existence and then I went to college at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. And there were all these, kind of, hipster New York kids who were so-called 'cultured' and had so much, you know, like knew all the references and, like, already had their look down.
I don't even give my scripts to friends because I just feel it's, like, I don't need one more set of opinions.
I think living in our culture right now, there's a universal experience where we feel like we become what we do. Sometimes that's rewarding and sometimes that creates an existential crisis.
I started as a writer; I started writing when I was little. The acting and directing was an outgrowth of my desire to tell stories.
I grew up in a religious family, and we weren't allowed to listen to rock music.
I used to have a road-rage issue.
As an actor and a writer, the anxiety about doing TV is that you start to feel like you get married to one tone or one kind of idea and you feel like you want to be able to express a lot of different things.
I believe, in general, that even people that are self-pitying, you can feel for them.
