I'm in all my films, I can't help it. I just jam myself in there if there's a space.
I do feel I'm kind of a magnet for crazy, and if there isn't enough crazy, I will insert myself in a situation that I feel has comedy potential.
For the most part, there's so much of me in my characters.
'I' is the word everyone uses to refer to themselves. On the one hand, it points to a specific person, but it's also this blank space that you can insert yourself into; it's a chute into empathy.
In my stories, whenever there's somebody wonderful and charming and bright and intelligent, that's me!
That's the way I will write characters, put a fair amount of myself in them, and then everyone else who was like that person, I will pick and choose.
Ryan Reynolds was my childhood crush. His name is all over the walls of my room. I actually Photoshopped myself into a picture with him my freshman year of high school.
Sometimes I aid into the confusion by having my character's name be my name.
In my early writing, all of my characters were exactly the same person. They all spoke the same, made the same types of jokes, reacted the same, etc. I think they were all just me in disguise.
I find it kind of weird that directors want to put themselves in their films.
