When I Left College, I Was Out

We Use Improv In All Kinds Of Fun Ways. Sometimes It's To Invent Or Discover New Things, Sometimes It's To Weird Out The Other Actors, And Sometimes It's To Create A Sense Of Fun, To Find New Things Inside The Scripted Lines.

Josh [gad] Is Such An Amazing Improviser And Is So Good When The Material Is Flowing From Him That Sometimes, If A Written Scene Isn't Working Quite Right, I'll Tell Him That We've Got It And That He Can Just Play. He'll Blow Us Away With Some Super Weird Stuff And Some Wild Things That We Might Use Bits And Pieces Of In The Edit, And Then I'll Say, "just For Good Measure, Let's Do One More Of The Scripted Version."

I Think “the Book Of Mormon” Has Made That Difference In Its Field. It Changed The Game. It’s Something That 20 Years From Now People Will Still Be Talking About, Hopefully. That’s My Goal As An Artist, As A Creator, As A Work For Hire, Is To Choose Projects That Make People Think, Make People Talk, And Make People Interested In Having A Dialogue.

My Idol Growing Up Was Charlie Chaplin. I Was Obsessed With Him. I Mean, While Other Kids Were Watching Jim Carrey And The Likes In The '90s, I Was Watching Charlie Chaplin Films, Because I Was A Bit Of A Geek. I Became Obsessed With This Idea Of Physical Comedy.

It's Weird To Say, But Every Time I Look At My Daughter And I See This Little Living Breathing Thing That Came From Me, That Represents All Of The Hopes And Dreams That I Would Want For Her, I See A Miracle.