The Secret To Comedy Is Not Playing

When People Embrace Character, It Informs Their Living, Breathing Moments In A Scene So Well.

I Think People Imagine That I Have About Five Scripts Sitting In Front Of Me And I Say, 'i Think I'm Going To Go With The Super Hero Thing And After That I'll Wrap It Up With Some More Sci-fi And Then Do A Romantic Comedy.' But It Doesn't Quite Work Out That Way.

My First Comic-con Was When I First Met Joss Whedon: He Introduced Me To That World And I'd Never Been To A Convention Before That. He And A Bunch Of The 'buffy' And 'angel' Writers Were All Going Down In A Big Van And He Invited Me Along.

It's A Trap I've Fallen Into Earlier In My Career - Trying To Be Liked. Don't Do It. When I Watch Tv And I See Someone Trying To Make Me Like Them, Acting Cute Or Quirky Or Goofy, I'm Not Impressed. Don't Act Like America's Watching You. Just Latch Onto Your Character. Characters Are Flawed. Be Unlikeable. Be Flawed. Be A Person.

I Realized, Dumb People Don't Know They're Dumb. When People Try To Make Me Laugh And They Try To Be Funny, That's When They Lose Me. I Find A Lot Of Comedy In Honesty.