Transitioning to acting in films, he made his directorial debut with Reality Bites and went on to direct and star in films such as The Cable Guy (1996), and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013). He also starred in a string of successful studio comedies, including, Along Came Polly (2004), Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004), Starsky & Hutch (2004), and Tower Heist (2011). His performances in independent films include Flirting with Disaster (1996); The Royal Tenenbaums (2001); and the Noah Baumbach films Greenberg (2010), While We're Young (2014), and The Meyerowitz Stories (2017).
Transitioning to acting in films, he made his directorial debut with Reality Bites and went on to direct and star in films such as The Cable Guy (1996), and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013) He also starred in a string of successful studio comedies, including, Along Came Polly (2004), Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004), Starsky & Hutch (2004), and Tower Heist (2011). His performances in independent films include Flirting with Disaster (1996); The Royal Tenenbaums (2001); and the Noah Baumbach films Greenberg (2010), While We're Young (2014), and The Meyerowitz Stories (2017).