Actually when I gave out the script, I gave it with a CD of all the music I wanted to put in the movie, and again, we never thought we’d get all that music.

I have a great relationship with my parents. I have not been on lithium.

I am really driven, but my drive doesn’t effect the conversations I have in my head about life, and my worries and fears and insecurities.

Gay men in L.A. are all a bunch of tens looking for an eleven.

I always liked the story of Noah’s Ark and the idea of starting anew by rescuing the things you like and leaving the rest behind.

I didn’t necessarily have a total idea when I was writing the movie of where everything was going. I just wanted to have really realistic dialogue and write like people I knew talked. I tried to keep it very real.

That image is a couple different people’s homes that I knew growing up.

I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn’t written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.

The way I write is that I’ll actually have a conversation out loud with myself. In a weird way, I just kind of get schizophrenic and play two characters.

I said, I’m on this TV show and I love doing it, but I don’t want to be known always as the silly “Scrubs” guy… So part of me was like, You know what? Life’s short. Let’s go for it.

Actually when I gave out the script, I gave it with a CD of all the music I wanted to put in the movie, and again, we never thought we’d get all that music.

I’m by no means condemning prescription medicine for mental health. I’ve seen it save a lot of people’s lives.

It used to be that you came out of school, and you got married – those who were going to get married. But my peers are getting married in their early 30s, so now there’s like this extra 10 years of that angst.