he says. ''I've been able to star in three movies in my career, and I still haven't done that.

I'd done a ton of movies here in Hollywood, and I realized that every movie I'd done was somebody's else's work and someone else's vision.

I don't laugh so much at jokes and premises as I do at a guy who goes onstage and starts twitching and acting funny.

Without sounding negative, I'm not a huge fan of a lot of stand-up. I'm more interested in an absurd kind of theater.

I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.

My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.