Dan Levy

And often I have a preoccupation with exploring the lives of people that are

at home when the door is shut.

And I think particularly family dynamics, like if we think about our families, obviously this is generalization, but I think how we operate with each other behind closed doors versus the faces we put on when we leave the house, we're generally speaking much better behaved as a family dynamic in public than I think most people are.

behind closed doors.

We'll talk to our family members differently, the fights will be different, the disagreements will be different, the language, the tone.

That's where I find the comedy, in the rawness of how we interact with people.

But I think in order to understand it and be able to articulate it, I almost need to just observe it and not be involved in it in a way.

going back to being the boring person when I'm not sort of working.

My parents used to always... I used to be a VJ on MTV, and my parents used to... I would come home after doing my work.

We had a live hour of television that I would do every day.

Wow.

And I would come to my parents' house for dinner, and they would always wonder why they couldn't get the guy that was on TV showing up to dinner.

I was far more low-key and way more interesting on camera, so...

Also, low-key is totally intriguing, so it's never boring.

Boring is something very different.

My parents may beg to differ, but I think I took it always as a sign of ease when you can be disarmed and quiet.

It's a sign of comfort, I think.

Well, I spend quite a lot of time on my own and my mood is very dippy.

And when it's dipping down, I think, if someone was here, I'd have to make a kind of thing about it.

And because I'm on my own, it will just go.