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There's so many good comic actors that you just take the best of and try and run with it yourself. Try and bring a little bit of yourself to it, too.

It's very rare that you get a director that lets you be creative and bring what you feel your character should do or should be.

I think a lot of great male comic actors are introspective, quiet personalities, which I really admire. But they are really able to turn it up when the camera's on.

There is often a great disparity between a director's personal style and the movies he makes.

It's so hard to find a director who, when you look at their body of work, you like everything.

Any comic is a very good actor. Look at Don Rickles. He is saying the same joke every night for 20 years and making it look like he just thought of it.

It's a director's job to tell a story and he's very well versed in telling stories with a bit of comedy in them and keeping the pace of the movie right and that's exactly what he did. He was observant of a world he didn't understand but he told a wonderful story.

I think actors do make really, really wonderful directors.

I have always been a great fan of Peter Chan and many other great directors who specialize in anything outside of action.

The only other things, and again these things are hearsay, is that he could be pretty rough on directors, because he knew exactly the way he wanted to play the part. And he did so.