From KCRW in Santa Monica, this is The Treatment.

Welcome to The Treatment.

You can also hear the show at KCRW.com.

My guest, Bobcat Gauthier as a comic, has made awkwardness into kind of an art form.

And as a writer-director, he's made awkwardness a much more intimate and personal thing, as you

know from his movies such as what's original title was Stay, which I liked a lot better than

Sleeping Dogs Lie.

Yeah, me too, but there was another stay at the time.

There's the one with Ewan McGregor, right?

Yeah, and Naomi Watts, a Mark Forster movie. Yeah. there was another stay at the time there's the one with you and mcgregor right yeah and uh

Naomi watch of Mark Forster movie and yeah I always hope that someone accidentally rents that

thinking there's some bestiality in it like hey that's my goal you know

Naomi Watts better get busy with this dog because this is not the movie I heard about.

Well, before we get in talking about your new film as a writer-director, World's Greatest Dad, we should talk a little about sleeping dogs like, which I saw at Sundance.

And I told you there how much I like the film.

And tell audiences what the film is about because all the descriptions kind of dance around.

Yeah, it is a romantic comedy with a

tasteful amount of bestiality. It isn't what drives the movie. I mean, I just needed something

that people couldn't get past. And I was trying to explore the fact that, you know, it's the

lies that we tell about ourselves. This is what makes us better people. We say it's about

that incident and then this woman trying to deal with her life afterwards.

Yeah, but it's not about her getting past what would lead up to that.

...