After "Elizabethtown", Schneider had supporting roles in "The Family Stone" and "Live Free or Die". In 2007, he portrayed Gus Lindstrom in "Lars and the Real Girl" and Dick Liddil in "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford". He was named one of "Ten Actors to Watch" by "Variety". In 2008, he made his directorial debut with the independent film "Pretty Bird". Also in 2008, Schneider played President William Henry Harrison in a short parody miniseries entitled "Drunk History Vol. 4".