I started writing when I was trying to be an actor, and I happened to be friends with Tina Fey, who happened to have her show '30 Rock' coming out. So Tina, who happens to be a mentor to me, gave me my slot and hired me.

There's still only maybe three female writers or two female writers to 10 guys in any kind of writer's room.

No one ever actually said they were resistant because 'Pitch Perfect' was female-centric. When a project is sitting there for a while, you start to speculate about what could be the thing that might be a little tricky about it.

I was crazy poor, but I was learning and putting myself out there and getting hired to do whatever gig I could and auditioning.

Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.

The fact that a person loves one particular person is what is important; the life lesson, whether you are homosexual or heterosexual, is that you not be promiscuous, and true to one person.

As I visited the various neighborhoods in the campaign, I learned fast that it's a mistake to think that all of the wisdom and possible solutions to our problems are available only in this building.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.