For years, it's driven me crazy that women don't have better roles, especially in comedies. I know so many funny women but I always felt... misogynist streak is too strong a term - but a dismissiveness.

I was a standup comedian, which is kind of like writing and directing yourself.

Handheld camera is approximating what we're seeing when we're looking at each other, and kind of looking around, and your eyes whipping around. It adds an immediacy, where you feel like you are watching something through your own eyes, standing there with them. And that just allows you to take more liberties and have more fun with people's behavior.

A lot of comedies fall apart because they just go from joke to joke, and the characters are all sort of being crazy off on their own.

I have an inability to enjoy things, but that's why we're in comedy. If we were happy, we wouldn't be funny, I guess.

When I went to high school, in the late 1970s, disco was in full swing and anyone who was into it dressed the part. I know I did.

As a director, I really wanted to learn and I needed to get away from my own stuff to figure out how to just do things and work with good people.