Linking up the things you were with the things you become is what growing up is.

I was raised primarily by women. I had a mother who almost killed herself to survive, I had a sister who was eight years older who was like a second mother, and my mother had two sisters. In the environment I grew up in, I heard a lot of female perspectives.

A television job that's working is the best job in the world.

I was only in college, unfortunately, for, um, a year. I think my major was public relations, and I had no idea what it meant except it seemed maybe attainable.

Jazz can be so serious, no sense of humor.

The rules I go by are: Always keep your villains bad, and keep the plot grounded and real. If you keep those stakes, the comedy will bounce off that and work.

It is fun to see a comedy in which every single joke hasn't been packed into the trailer.

You can't cheat comedy. You know, it either is going to be there on the day you capture or it's not.