Being at the pinnacle of my career is not to turn up in some multiplex blockbuster.

Every job feels like my first.

You put yourself on tape as an actor a lot - and you send them off, they go out into the ether, and you have no idea what's going to come back, or when.

I need someone who understands an artist's mentality. I couldn't be with someone who wouldn't let me have my freedom.

A lot of times in comedy, and also in podcasting and television, there are different kinds of voices that can be celebrated. So you can have 'Insecure' exist, you can have a '2 Dope Queens' exist, you can have 'The Mindy Project' exist - very distinct, funny voices from women and from people of color.

I do like any kind of project that has both comedy and drama in it because in life you don't have one day where everything is funny then the next day everything is dramatic.

I manage through a sense of humor. We all work hard, and work has to be a really interesting, fun place. And that has to start at the top.

I've always been sort of addicted to genre-jumping. I've never been in the mood to do the same thing I did last time. Hence, me going from 'Big Love' to romantic comedy, to period film... I can't sit still.