As a parent, all you want is for your kids to be safe but you don’t want to be over-protective and so you know that at some stage, they’re going to make their own mistakes and get hurt emotionally when all you want to do is protect them from that.

Children are very smart, in their own stupid way. A child's brain is like a sponge, and you know how smart sponges are.

People know where romantic comedies are going. It's not brain surgery to figure out the end of a romantic comedy.

I always feel so pretentious talking about comedy and deconstructing it. It always feels somehow self-centred to talk about any sort of process.

As soon as you start to talk about your own mannerisms, you are screwed. Because if you are aware of your own mannerisms, or beyond that even what makes any one thing funny to people, I really ascribe to that that if you start deconstructing it too much, it is immediately not funny.

That's an interesting way to put it: an expectation of who you should be. More often than not, it's described as an expectation of who you are.

I know I'm not a woman's fantasy man; I don't have to uphold this image of male beauty, so that's kind of a relief in a way.