Random Roles is one of the most revealing things A.V. Club does, and this is the single best one ever:

“So I go back to my mark on the set and I start crying—not like sobbing, but tears started coming out, and I almost lost it. Why? Because he said, ‘Guys like us.’ And he said it twice. I’m not saying that I’m him. He’s one of the greatest directors; I’m not saying that. I’m just saying funny. I remember when I was 20 in college, somebody goes, ‘Who do you think you are, Woody Allen?’ Now I got Woody Allen saying, ‘Guys like us.’ So I started crying, because it really was your idol validating your choice that you made in your life. Later I called Dana Carvey. He goes, ‘What’s it like?’ I go, ‘He said, —Guys like us.— And Dana started screaming, because he knew what it meant. It was heaven, and I couldn’t stop smiling.”