The biggest thing I’ve heard for the last four months is, ‘Thanks for ruining my childhood,’
The director is the only person on the set who has seen the film. Your job as a director is to show up every day and know where everything will fit into the film.
In my years of acting, the one thing I was never able to do convincingly was to laugh on camera. Fake-laugh.
With a suit, even if you’re having a nervous breakdown, you still look like you’re in charge.
What I don’t like is when I see stuff that I know has had a lot of improv done or is playing around where there’s no purpose to the scene other than to just be funny. What you don’t want is funny scene, funny scene, funny scene, and now here’s the epiphany scene and then the movie’s over.
Women comedy is different than men comedy. Guy comedy is very aggressive, it’s about insulting each other, name-calling, and kind of busting each other’s chops, and that’s not what women’s comedy is.
You can never have a thousand percent batting average on jokes – it’s just never going to happen.