We always try to go back to character: What do they want? What are they doing? What's in motion that they're dealing with? When things get particularly heavy, we will take a step back and look at who has some room to have some things lighter, funnier, or sweeter happen.

There definitely has been this kind of Hollywood swing back from the pendulum of, 'OK, we're gonna do gay people; we're gonna do queens.' And then it's like, 'No, no, no queens. Queen is too much.'

I believe that young kids have agency and can make a difference in the world.

I'm on Twitter every single week. It's sort of like being a playwright standing in the back of the theater.

I don't know any woman who has a simple relationship with their mother or with their daughter.

If I did not have for him the warm affection a son feels toward a less austere and preoccupied father, I at least had an immense respect for him, and a great admiration.

I grew up in a family where law was in the air we were breathing.

It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.