Losing a parent over eight years is a very dark journey. I spent the first four years feeling bad and angry and sorry for myself.

After leaving ImageMovers, I sold two pitches to Fox Atomic, which I then wrote for them.

Losing a parent over eight years is a very dark journey. I spent the first four years feeling bad and angry and sorry for myself.

That's the funny thing about life. We're rarely aware of the bullets we dodge. The just-misses. The almost-never-happeneds. We spend so much time worrying about how the future is going to play out and not nearly enough time admiring the precious perfection of the present.

It was really exciting to see how Bridesmaids was accepted and how well it did.

Bridesmaids proved there was an audience there that we knew was there. It proved that women go to the movies. They want to see story about themselves.

Writing is such a weird emotional thing. It's hard. If you sit down with a plan to write something, it's going to be harder.