Another strategy is creating your own work as an actor, which Long is keen to do. The actor is currently writing a project with his college pal Jonathan Togo, a regular on CSI: Miami. “We’re creating something for ourselves that we can produce and we can write,” Long says. “That’s what Vince Vaughn does, that’s what Stiller does, that’s what Judd Apatow and all those guys are doing. If you have the means to do that, I think that’s really smart.”

Source: backstage.com (Click to read the full article on Justin Long)