When I was growing up, the current of feminism was strong. You just had to step off the bank, and you'd be swept up. There was an active women's movement. My mother was a part of it.

I've always seen the world as very gender-neutral.

The audience that watches on Sunday night is upscale, very female, and very engaged.

Throughout my career, the pounding in my heart, the fright, has been ever-present, but I never turned back. Fear can be a highly motivational part of the journey.

If you do something that is not gags and punchlines and is character-based, where there are no jokes as such, then it all has to come from a place of truth, and I love that - I love nothing more than getting very serious about my comedy.

I think comedy stems from being honest, often painfully so. I hope I can achieve that perspective in my own life and also have fun.

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.

With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn't want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the opposite.