I love directing. It's something I started doing in theatre when I was in university in Chicago and I started a theatre company right out of college and was directing for many years.

Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote "Fans of the sitcom Friends may be surprised by David Schwimmer in Kissing a Fool. He played a hopeless-romantic paleontologist who works at a museum and later becomes a professor at a university. Critics dismissed The Pallbearer as a poor imitation of the 1967 film The Graduate.

A. The following year he made his Off-Broadway directorial debut in the 2008 production Fault Lines. For much of the late-1980s he lived in Los Angeles as a struggling unemployed actor.