If you develop 10 things, and you can get two or three made, that's a very high ration.

I'm always begging people like James Brooks and Cameron Crowe to come to screenings, to see what they make of it, and they're always ridiculously helpful. They also keep me brave enough to commit to what I'm trying to do. They can be great cheerleaders for risk-taking.

You should look up some of the reviews. The New York Times review is so over-the-top funny. It's hysterical. You should dig it out.

Something economically changed. It used to be that you needed 20 million people to watch a TV show for it to be a hit. Now, with just a few million people watching, you're considered very successful, for a lot of these streaming services, or cable channels. Now, that allows people to do much more creatively ambitious work, because it's not lowest common denominator.

If we really talked about what's wrong with you, you'd need a 7-1/2-hour movie and nobody would know what category to put it in!

I think a lot of Hollywood is in retreat right now trying to figure out how to make money and make the safest bets.

To me, I've never understood why there is any question about are women as funny as men.