I had to face the fact that I had been using my gay friends as props. They were always supposed to be funny and entertain me and praise me and listen to my problems, and their life was supposed to be a secret that no one wanted to hear about. I wanted them to stay in the “half closet.

Amy Poehler and I have been friends for so long, we're like Oprah and Gale. Only we're not denying anything.

Boyhood proves that there's still good roles for women over 40, as long as you get hired when you're under 40.

If you care about [the characters] as if they were real, that always helps.

The only way I could get comfortable around people was to make them laugh.

When humor works, it works because it's clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real.

Quentin Tarantino is here, star of all my sexual nightmares.