Jim Piddock

Chris O'Dowd is a very special talent. He's one of those very, very rare actors who can be the clown, or he can be the straight man playing off the clown, in a scene.

There's no traditional three act structure - or beginning, middle and end - to a family tree. By its nature, it has almost infinite different branches, or episodes, to explore in every direction.

Most of my writing work has been in film. I have done some TV, but most of it has been in film.

If you're going to go to an audition, you don't want to go in trying to force yourself into some archetype that has been thought up by a director and translated by a casting director.

I've always had so much admiration for my mom. She's so inspiring as a woman and as an artist.

I think for any actor, for the roles they deeply, truly want? They always have to audition for them.