How did you get Peter Sarsgaard and John C. Reilly and everybody?
They love me. No, I don’t know. I got lucky. The truth is I just made a wish list of actors that I really want to work with and started sending the script out. I think I just got lucky because, you know, the schedule was such that it was easy to pop people in for a few days. And then also I think each of the parts sort of had … you know, everybody had their little moment and when they were working, there was a lot to chew on, so I think that sometimes appeals to an actor. Q: What is it about the fact that your central character isn’t the usual glamorous center-attention star that movies are made of? You know how people say you have to have a Julia Roberts type. You obviously think of it very differently. A: Right. The truth is I love funny women and I’ve always found there to be so many cool, funny comedians and I find it’s too bad that most comedies are built around these same six guy comics, and while I like those guys, it’s like … You look at someone like Molly who’s as talented as
