At one point when I was very young, when I was first starting out, I thought, 'Well, one day I'll be able to put all the music away and become a real comedian.' But then I realized there are amazing musical comedians out there, that musical comedy is probably something I'll always want to pursue.

I'm happy, I'm in a good place, I'm looking forward to my future.

I grew up reading science fiction.

It's cool to step on stage with your heroes.

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

I'm terrified of the supernatural things, which is why I'm very grateful that I don't see things like that. Because if I did see things of the paranormal persuasion, I don't think I'd be able to continue making scary movies.

My 50th birthday approaching felt like a big milestone to me. I've lived half a century. If I write about food and use my life as a fulcrum to move the story along, maybe I've lived long enough to fashion a narrative that has a happy ending.

Cinema is my religion. It is a way to make people sensitive, through emotions. To make them feel, experience empathy. People are touched and act ethically when they are emotionally touched.

Love is a game that two can play and both win.

I broke into the ranks of computing in the early 1980s, when women were just starting to poke their shoulder pads through crowds of men. There was no legal protection against 'hostile environments for women.'

Chance is hugely significant in biology. In fact, the presence of apparent randomness in so many aspects of biology - from mutations in DNA to the chance involved in that one sperm reaching that one egg that became you - suggests that randomness is useful, even necessary, in very many cases.

I have married thriteen couples. I'm about to do a marriage next month.

My mother inspired me to treat others as I would want to be treated regardless of age, race or financial status.

I don't have a Pollyana attitude toward life that claims everything is lovely.

I like to embrace natural beauty. I try to get at least 8 hours of sleep, drinking a lot of water and exercising.

The Bush administration also was not straightforward about the intelligence it had, releasing tenuous information that fit its goal of attacking Iraq. I feel deceived.

Being funny is a very serious business.

Trust your landmark and run through the smoke. It's going to open up eventually.

We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about.

Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go.