When I'm in the middle of making a movie, I have blinders on; it's all about just getting the movie out.

After 'Freaky Friday,' another teen movie was not on my playlist.

I'm sure there are some haters out there, but I just put my blinders on.

When I'm directing actors, I often find myself slipping in sports metaphors, like: 'Don't go for the punch line here, just put it up on a T-ball stand so she can hit it out of the park.'

Usually, like, on 'Mean Girls,' the task that Tina Fey and I set for ourselves was we wanted to maintain a comic intensity throughout the movie, where people just don't really get a break from laughing. And if they do, it's for a brief emotional scene, and then we're going to once again try to knock them on their heels again with comedy.

We are tired out in making complaints and getting no redress.