What you want is the thing that critics love and audiences love, but that's the hardest thing to do.

Wearing a tuxedo isn't as simple as it sounds. I've been to a lot of award shows in Hollywood over the years and have seen some pretty sad tuxes. It's surprisingly easy to go off the rails.

Bad women's comedies are made by men who didn't consult enough women.

I can't impress enough upon people that if you tell an honest story that people relate to and people believe and invest in, you can do anything.

The hard thing is getting people to come to the theater to see something, no matter if it's good or not.

I'm from Mt. Clemens, Michigan. It's right outside Detroit. The suburbs. I was always very heavily involved in theater back then. I was always in drama club or forensics. Anything that you could do that had some performing, I was doing it.

One of the many things I want to do is dig us out of that hole so that guys, in particular, can go: "Oh, yeah. Those people are really funny. I've seen that person. It's a woman. They are funny."