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The first acting I ever did was an Italian commercial. Once I did that, I said, 'this acting thing is awesome.'

Well, I wasn't just kind of standing in a queue at McDonald's and someone sat down and said, 'You're the director of a $100 million Hollywood movie.' I've been working in commercials for ten years.

I started with commercials - for shampoo, pancakes, insurance, Volvo. I did a Lux soap commercial with Sarah Jessica Parker. And I got a role in an indie film called 'Satellite' that did well in festivals.

I had kicked around the idea for Good Eats when I was directing commercials.

I started to make some commercials, which was a way for me to finally make a living at last. But it was only really a couple of films in that it looked like a viable career option.

I did commercials since I was 16, and that's kind of acting, depending on what you're selling.

God, I'd love to do a big commercial movie that made a lot of money and whose plot was interesting too.

I went to a few really bad commercial auditions because I needed the money, and when you booked a commercial, your life was made: you could eat.