I Had Envisioned Doing Comedy

You Make Adjustments According To The Specifics Of The Character.it's Something I Feel Like A Lot Of My Comedic Heroes Have Always Done. It's Not Even Necessarily Vulnerability, Always, But It's An Earnestness, A Genuine Desire To Actually Do The Right Thing, But Then Still Make Really Misguided, Stupid Decisions Along The Way.

I Told Personal Stories The Way [bill] Cosby Would Spin A Yarn For Ten Minutes. I Think In Hindsight It Works Better As A Long Story Than As A Condensed Monologue.

I Went To Oberlin College, And They Don't Have A Film Major, But They Do Have What's Called An Individual Major, Where You Can Sort Of Pitch To A Committee Your Own Course Study, And If They Approve It, You Have Essentially Just Designed Your Own Major. So Oberlin Doesn't Have A Film Major; They Do Have A Film Minor... And Then My Spring Semester Of My Junior Year, I Went Off To Nyu Film School As A Visiting Student - They Have A Program For Kids From Other Schools To Come In For A Semester.

Getting Any Movie Made Is Just Like Trying To Push A Giant Boulder Up A Mountain, And There's So Many Moving Parts. Obviously, There's The Creative Side, And Then There's The Logistical Side, And They're Both Colossal.

It's A Fascinating Culture [the South In The Civil War Period] And So Rife With Comedic Possibilities. And Not In A Way That...i Have No Intention Of Making Fun Of Re-enactors. I Think It's More Just A Celebration Of Their Passion And Enthusiasm, Which Is So Infectious And Maybe At Times A Little Misguided.