“When I made the decision to come out and share my story, I never processed what happened in between. I felt like it was just what I had to do at the...
“There’s power in the quiet moments between words. Being comfortable in silence—to not be afraid of it—is not just about stand-up. Once I really...
“There’s a line from the play that Sidney says— ‘The why of why we are here is an intrigue for adolescents; the how is what must command the living.’...
“Any useful diversion from someone’s attention to say watch this, listen to this — I take very seriously. If I’m going to ask them to take an hour to...
“My friends and I will be having a wonderful moment—sunset, driving back from Malibu—and they’re like, we all know you’re going to write a song about...
“I really felt myself in Catherine Keener and Julia Louis-Dreyfus. I was watching myself, in a way. We just got each other, there was a sisterhood...
“Writing forever, I would write screenplays and realize they were about other movies. I’d get inspired and write these cool sequences, but the...
“America is beautiful because it’s full of all kinds of people. In Taste the Nation, I hope that I give as balanced a picture of these stories as I...
“There is a system of laws that’s a web of disenfranchisement that no one really knows exists. Nine out of ten of the 70-80 million people with some...
“I’ve settled into myself a little more. I think that’s all you can hope for. I’m really grateful to have a job where you have to keep asking...
“Life goes on, and you have to be grateful that it all existed. That you were able to make your dreams real. I’ll always be fortunate.” -Carol...
“To invite someone into your home feels very intimate. It’s like a fast track to intimacy, in a way that nothing else really is. People’s memories...
“Film is a medium where you are asking people to relate to it personally, so there’s an amount of projection that’s necessary in the audience...
“For me, there’s always a process of exiting a character. It doesn’t necessarily mean I let go of it; it actually feels like more of an absorption...
“Not having enough time feels like a very individual and personal experience, but it actually is an expression of the fact that we have to sell our...
“As a comedian, this one thing stuck with me early on: maybe if you were in a drama, you’d have more of a special energy that could help that drama...
“After the poem has passed out of the hands of the one who’s written it down, and after that person may have departed from time and space and be...