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I Worked As An Assistant Editor, Actually, For A Few Years. That Was Right When I Was Just Starting To Get Out At Night And Do A Lot Of Stand-up, Improv, And Sketch Work In New York. It Really Is Invaluable. I Think It Pounded Into Me An Awareness Of What An Editor Wants And Needs, In Terms Of Clarity Of A Moment, Where And When To Start And Stop A Line.

What's Cool Is That In The Story Of The Movie [the Hangover] Our Characters Are Also Really Kind Of Getting To Know Each Other And Bonding Over The Course Of The Movie. And I Think You're Seeing A Real, A Literal Sort Of Friendship Growing Both In Us As Actors And On Screen As Characters.

We Did Some Camera Tests Blacking It Out, We Made A Prosthetic With A Gap In It, But That Made Me Look Like A Donkey, So I Vetoed That Right Away. And Then I Just Finally Called My Dentist And Said, 'you Know, I've Had This Implant For 20 Years. What's It Involve In Taking It Out?' And He Said, 'it's Actually Not That Big A Deal. We Can Do That.' So We Took It Out And I Was Toothless For Three Months, For The Run Of The Movie [ The Hangover] .i Take My Job Very Seriously.

You Take A Vacation To A Place Like Thailand And You're Ready For The Excitement Of Something New And Foreign. But When You're Working 14-hour Days, All You Want Is Something Familiar To Ground You. And There's Just Nothing There.

As A Hobbyist, There's Something About Miniature Anything That Captures My Imagination.