I'm surrounded by music; I always was when I was growing up and continue to be. And I love music. And when I imagine a fictional world, I imagine there's music in it for those people, too.

If you look at most women's writing, women writers will describe women differently from the way male writers describe women. The details that go into a woman writer's description of a female character are, perhaps, a little more judgmental. They're looking for certain things, because they know what women do to look a certain way.

Nabokov's adventures in language and style and naked braininess are really unparalleled.

I'm very interested in what people will do for money. Money: it's timeless.

I did sketch comedy with a troupe at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe.

The reason most comedies don't win awards is that the filmmakers put the comedy first. This means you have to create a story around the jokes.

I was foreign and Jewish, with a funny name, and was very small and hated sport, a real problem at an English prep school. So the way to get round it was to become the school joker, which I did quite effectively - I was always fooling around to make the people who would otherwise dump me in the loo laugh.

At the end of the day, I do think I'm happiest doing comedy. I love it. I know that I can do other things. I love drama as well.