The director is the only person on the set who has seen the film. Your job as a director is to show up every day and know where everything will fit into the film.

If some magic thing happens, and everybody goes completely nuts, and does something we never thought of, the cameras catch everything. That comes from having camera people who are almost like actors and writers themselves.

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.

What's so great about working with really funny women is that vanity comes second. Whatever makes it real and funny, they're going to go for, and it's just great.

My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tragic.

We didn't used to be so precious about women in comedy back in the old days.

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.