My role models are Bettie Page and Mia Kirshner. Every day when Mia comes to work she raises the bar for us all.

What is their potential for evil; what is their potential for wickedness? That's the only time that those characters become interesting to watch.

My husband does so many romantic things for me, it's absurd.

Of course, the surest way to free yourself from an existential crisis is through comedy.

I'm always shocked that gay marriage is such a big deal. You have to realize how precious human life is, when there are tsunamis and mudslides, when there are armies and terrorists - at any moment, you could be gone, and potentially in the most brutal fashion.

I think the central metaphor of the movie is this notion of what the advertising industry does. In order to make someone want to buy something, they first have to make them feel bad about who they are in order to sell them that thing which will make them whole again, and happy again.

I'm just talking specifically of women's friendships. If two women go to a bar and they are fighting over men, it makes it much easier for the men. If two women are very close and they act as it makes it very difficult for the men to pull one over on anybody.