There are a lot of actors who will watch the monitors. They'll do a scene, and then the director will look back to see if he got whatever he wanted. I just find it odd to sit there and watch yourself.

I didn't like some of the movies that were coming into me.

I was looking to become more proactive with my career because I wasn't crazy with some of the scripts I was getting - this was before Blow and Hannibal - so I decided to start my own production company.

With any mannerisms or dialogue, you have to be careful you're not just serving yourself. What happens with improving is a lot of times, if you're not in the framework of the script, you're just making everything easier so it fits you.

In college, I started out doing musicals and Shakespeare.

I didn’t like some of the movies that were coming into me.

I’m not a proponent of people watching a movie, and then going out and doing something bad. People have been doing bad things, well before movies.

I think that if you can achieve a balance, then you appease a lot of yourself and your career and what it takes to maintain in this business for a while.

I would like to do a lot more of it, I feel comfortable with it and basically it’s all in the writing. I’m not a personality type actor, I need a good script in order to be funny, but it’s definitely something that I like doing.

I’ve done a few movies where I really liked the project, but I wasn’t sure about the director, and I still did it and my instinct was right, in the beginning. Even though it was a good story, the guy still didn’t really know what he was doing.