My Ass May Be Dumb, But I

I Kind Of Realize That I Have A Tendency To Choose The Kind Of Films I Watched When I Was A Kid And Would Go Home And Pretend With My Friends That We Were In Those Movies After We Saw Them.

There Are Tons Of Stories Out There. I Read A Lot Of Scripts On A Weekly Basis. I'm Looking For Stories To Tell And Stories That I Hope Will Be Interesting To An Audience.

Take A Stand For What's Right. Raise A Ruckus And Make A Change. You May Not Always Be Popular, But You'll Be Part Of Something Larger And Bigger And Greater Than Yourself. Besides, Making History Is Extremely Cool.

I Did Play A Dentist In Waiting For Guffman. I Wrote The Speech At The Conference. In The Original Script, When It Got To That Scene, It Was, 'thank You Very Much. Good Night.' Literally. I Just Thought, 'he Keeps Talking About This Speech. The Keynote Address Is The Big Thing In His Life And This Is Too Important To Say, "thank You. Good Night." I Think We Have To See And Hear Him Doing What He Does.' So I Got Together With My Dentist And We Worked Through A Few Things.

Hair Is Very, Very Distinctive. I Started That With That Boxing Movie I Did, The Great White Hype. The Director Wanted Me To Look Like Don King, And Everybody Knew Who Don King Was. But I Didn't Want To Be Don King. I Wanted The Man To Be Rev. Fred Sultan, So I Decided To Make Him Look Like Julius Caesar. And From That Point On, I Just Decided, I Had This Great Wig-maker, So I Just Found Hairstyles That I Felt Would Be Distinctive For Every Character. Like An Adventure.