I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me.

I think that if you're serving yourself before you're serving a story then that's where you end up being not funny. It's not about being funny, it's about telling a story and then the comedy comes out of the situation, I think.

Making movies, you're like an independent contractor - you come in, you have a specific job, and a lot of what you do is completely manipulated, which is good and bad.

For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.

When I got a little bit older I wanted to play piano - that's all I wanted to do. I remember learning how to play a blues progression on the xylophone in music class and thinking "This is the greatest thing I've ever learned."

You don't have to wear expensive clothes to look good.

I think that it's our responsibility to create a world in which girls can grow up and not have to limit their dreams or possibilities.