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Every director should take an acting class.

Bad women's comedies are made by men who didn't consult enough women.

I couldn't be happier to not be acting. I miss it, but I don't miss the auditioning or trying to get work.

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.

As a director, I really wanted to learn and I needed to get away from my own stuff to figure out how to just do things and work with good people.

I've never been to a class reunion or anything because I'm always afraid of that one - there's going to be some 'Carrie'-like incident.

Forty is the line of demarcation that says you're an adult now. You're an adult, so don't pretend you're a kid anymore.

At the end of the day if you want to entertain people, you've got to take your ego out of the equation.

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.

At the end of the day the question comes, what are you doing for the world? You have to try to do something that's going to add something positive.

I always hated high-school shows and high-school movies, because they were always about the cool kids. It was always about dating and sex, and all the popular kids, and the good-looking kids. And the nerds were super-nerdy cartoons, with tape on their glasses. I never saw 'my people' portrayed accurately.

You want a happy ending, but not such a ridiculous happy ending that it doesn't mean anything to anybody.

With a suit, even if you're having a nervous breakdown, you still look like you're in charge.

I really feed off of The Walking Dead.

I love funny people, and when I'm with funny people, or people who are amusing in their weirdness, I love it. Because that to me is funny, as opposed to someone who stops and says, 'Hey let me tell you a joke.'

Why is a movie starring women considered a gimmick and a movie starring men is just a normal movie?

Everyone takes pause at 40. It's the age you have to assess everything in your life. It's the fictitious marker that's always coming up when you're young. The world really does look at you to kind of have it together by 40, and be successful by 40. Whatever success means.