[the Man] Was A Case Where It

I Don't Get The Great Story Line, Action, Mystery Scripts; I Get Comedies. And Relationship Comedies Are What I Do. It's What Attracted Me To American Pie.

I Act The Way I Talk. It Probably Comes From Starting Out In Second City, Improvisational Theater. I Can Go From Take To Take. I'll Ask For Another Take.

I Was Gator In Jungle Fever, And Chris Rock Played Pookie, And Those Showed Two Very Different Dynamics Of What Crackheads Were. Mine Was More About The Family Relationships. So When People Sat There And Got That, They Can Sit There And Say, "oh, Man, That's My Friend." Or "that's My Brother." Or Cousin Or Somebody. They Empathize, Or They Had Something That They Could Latch Onto, In That Particular Movie, Of My Story, And Go With It.

We [me And Eugene Levy] Both Try To Play The Reality Of A Moment And Don't Try To Impose Humor On Something Where It Doesn't Belong. Contrary To What Other People Seem To Think Sometimes.

I Used To Like Watching Helen Mirren's Early Films, Because She Was Always Naked. It's Titillating.