Stress is a designer ailment that many of the so-called afflicted suffer from with pride.

I've owned more sofas than I've had husbands. Both sag in the end, but I generally fall out of love with the furniture quicker than the men.

Obviously I've spent most of my working life with men and they have this way of operating which seems a bit alien to me.

Caesar salad is one of my favourite lunch foods. You can shovel it in and talk at the same time.

Doug Motel makes 'conscious comedy'. He makes me laugh, and he makes me think.

I started out making fun of comedy. Then I became the thing I was making fun of.

My family and I have a little joke that if I'm feeling particularly blue, and nobody cares about me, I should just go to the airport! That is where I am most recognized.

In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?