No one ever actually said they were resistant because 'Pitch Perfect' was female-centric. When a project is sitting there for a while, you start to speculate about what could be the thing that might be a little tricky about it.
I wake up around seven, and I give my daughter breakfast. I spend the first hour or two of her day with her.
We're big 'Game of Thrones' fans, so we call our house King's Landing. I have a studio apartment above our garage that we call Winterfell. I go to Winterfell to write.
On '30 Rock,' the hours were really intense, and I was often on set. I'm glad I didn't have a kid then because I don't think I would have ever seen her. I would work 15-hour days, and weekends, too.
When I was in college, I started an improv group, and I did a bunch of plays and some musicals. I have a theater degree. I'm a school person: I like getting homework and having deadlines. When I graduated, I worked right away as an actor.
When I was younger, I wanted my hair to look like Molly Ringwald's.
I played volleyball and basketball, and I did track and volleyball in college.
I was an athlete, so I have kind of an athletic sensibility towards writing. I can work for many long hours without fatiguing.
'Pitch Perfect' was my first screenplay, so it was like my little baby.
Ultimately, I want to direct a movie, so that's another thing, too, where I wonder what that will look like and how will I be able to manage.
I was auditioning a lot in L.A., and I was actually getting called back a lot for sitcoms. But I wasn't getting jobs. I even tested for 'Saturday Night Live' and didn't get that.
I was like, 'I have to start writing for myself, to show people what I can do and what my point of view is.'
I was working at 'New Girl' when I found out there was going to be a 'Pitch' sequel.
I would be writing while I was breastfeeding. I didn't want the computer to be too close to her, so it was at an arm's distance away while I was clickety-clack typing away.
I ran track in college. And that team, that all-lady team that I was on, I can remember just being so incredibly sad that I knew we were all going to leave each other after we graduated and that our lives would change. And even though I was the bridesmaid at all their weddings and stuff like that, it's just not the same, right?
You just tell a good story where you're funny and it makes people laugh.
I have to say, my husband is a big Patriots fan. Like, a huge Patriots fan.
I started writing because I wasn't getting things as an actor.
I wasn't, like, pretty enough to be the ingenue; I wasn't 'character' enough to be the goofball sidekick. I'm kind of ethnically ambiguous.
I've got to literally write my own ticket.
