James Caan told me at the end of filming 'Elf' that he had been waiting through the whole film for me to be funny - and I never was.
“My cousin cleaned out a shotgun for me and let me carry it around the house, because he said, 'Anybody who knows anything about guns is going to know in a second if someone has held a gun before.' I didn't want to be that person. I wanted to be practiced.”