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On a lot of shows that I've done, we had the same directors, which was cool. But then, it's also great to do shows where the director changes every week, because you get to see all these different personalities and see what you like dealing with better, as an actor.

There are only so many hilarious actors so when they cross-pollinate, people assume it's always the same actors and directors.

I have immense admiration for the writer/directors and director/actors who just seamlessly do both jobs at the same time.

I really feel that I'm a much better director than I was an actor.

I admire directors so much, I find them incredible: they manage such a huge number of people of different characters, think of the money involved.

When I'm a director, I look at myself the actor as a completely different person. It's somebody else up there, an actor playing a role. I keep myself out of it.

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

As a director, I've been able to combine with what I've learned as an actor and as a producer: it melds quite nicely into what I feel like I should have been doing all along.

The biggest compliment I can ever get as an actor is to have someone say, 'We didn't recognize you.'

I do think that's so much a part of what being a director is - in working with actors - to really try and be sensitive to what each actor needs to get to where he wants to be.