Growing up a preacher's kid wasn't the easiest thing. Everybody's always watching you to see how you'll behave - or misbehave.

I want to separate my professional life from my personal life. I want to live a normal life and be a normal mother.

My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.

Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.

What I wanted to do was the comedy, and I found that. I found my bliss, I think.

I'll come out and say it because no one else will: French gross-out humor is the best. Particularly the illustrated variety.

I think so. I can't think of anything that requires more finesse than comedy, both from a verbal and visual point of view.

Dealing with sketch comedy and buddy teams like Abbott and Costello, Bob Hope and Bing Crosby - I just loved buddy comedies.