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

It's a lot harder to write a story that's compelling about identity and sense of self without some villain in the room.