three years. So the trick for me is to try to match the voice sessions I'd done maybe months previously. Sometimes they'd play me a bit of the last session to get me up to speed as to where I was, where the accent was, what the character was doing, and that would get me in the zone, energy-wise.' There are rumours you are going to be in 'The Abstinence Teacher', the new film by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris who directed you in 'Little Miss Sunshine'? 'That was one of those things that appeared online that there was no truth to. I'm familiar with the story, but it wasn't true. Sandra Bullock and I were attached, but I would love to work with Dayton and Faris again.' Would any non-comedy roles interest you? 'Sure. I try not to be pretentious about that. I don't want to do a part just to show people that I'm capable of it. I'd take a part if it's good or potentially entertaining or something unique or interesting. But not specifically, I'm not targeting any particular style of film.' You now produce a lot of the films you star in. Do you have any ambitions to direct? 'I've directed a few episodes of "The Office"... Maybe, but it feels like such a clich, especially for a comedic actor, to say "Well what I really want to do is a serious dramatic turn' or, on top of that, 'My heart will really be fulfilled when