People take things at face value on social media. Earnestness is the assumption.

Sometimes I aid into the confusion by having my character's name be my name.

As I've gotten older, I can look at myself more clearly and own the things that I'm good at and work on the things that I'm not. Like, I am not skinny. I know that if I were to lose a little weight I'd literally have more time in the morning because I know clothes would fit better. And now I can look at those things more practically. Instead of being like, "What does that say about me?," now I'm just like, "That would be great to sleep in an extra fifteen minutes because I wasn't trying on everything in my closet."

I am the kind of person that is drawn to colors against my will.

There's obviously instances where I perceive sexism in my job. ... I think that the sort of sexism that I see has been one that's a little bit like a gentler form of sexism, but still a little bit debilitating, which is that when, as a producer and a writer, whether it was at The Office or [at The Mindy Project], if I make a decision, it'll still seem like it's up for debate.

My mother is more of an adviser. I followed everything she did when I was younger, because I looked up to her so much.

That’s the one nice thing about being a dork about men: you can sometimes play it off as restrained and classy.