When you think of dog movies, that genre, Old Yeller is sort of the benchmark and you hope that you can raise your game up to that.

I was born in Sherman Oaks, California.

When your parents split up, it's impossible to delude yourself about fairytale romance and happy endings.

My keep-match meals: I'm good to go together with kale salad. Actually, Justin [Theroux] makes an ideal one with a poached egg and quinoa. It's actually scrumptious.

I don't have a religion. I believe in a God. I don't know what it looks like but it's MY god. My own interpretation of the supernatural.

You hit the wall almost right when you get up to the top. If there's a female writer being suggested to do a rewrite on a script, it's always the big boys going, "Mm, let's go with [a man]..."

That's what I hate about a lot of comedies, when you're hitting a line or making it funny.