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What I think improv is great for is making dialogue more natural.

I think when a lot of actors hear improv, they think of throwing a line in or doing a slightly different take.

And dialogue, I'm good at it, and it's because it's the only thing you have to work with in TV writing.

Improv has been immensely beneficial to me as both an actor and a writer.

There are very few actors who are truly good at improvising; that's a real skill.

I think actors always find the dialogue doesn't quite fit, so you always have to play with it.

Improv is a very big thing for me. The thing with actors is I do not understand at all how they do what they do. I'm fascinated by it, and I have such a respect for it.

See, that's the thing: I'm not one of those actors who thinks, 'God, I've got to improvise and make it my own.' No, my first job as an actor is to take what's written and make it work. And then, if they want me to improvise, I'll do that.

I don't write shows with dialogue where actors have to memorize dialogue. I write the scenes where we know everything that's going to happen. There's an outline of about seven or eight pages, and then we improvise it.

I'm more of a writer than an actor, and I used to say that I'm mostly an improviser, though I haven't improvised in awhile.