I wasn't paraded around for sale at all. My mother wasn't into that.

I prefer to think of the audience as a single living organism with which I am sharing a singular, never-to-be-repeated experience.

I've had cats all my life and obviously loved them, but the litter box, and the having to always get a house sitter, they're just too - they're too rigid. Cats are too needy somehow.

We don't want to come off as pro-smoking. Even though we didn't smoke real cigarettes at all, you want to be careful of people's sensitivities.

It's important to me if I'm having a good time than I feel like the work is better. The quality of it is better and my level of interest is higher.

Cigarettes are an instant signifier in culture. It punctuates a joke, or puts that extra zing on a punch line. I like them as a prop. I think it can be really useful for character and texture and contrast and all of that.

That's the thing about interviews, at some point you're going to change your mind. But it's there forever and you can't escape it.