I think a lot of writers, male and female, write as if their parents were killed in a car accident when they were 2, and they have no one to hold accountable. And unfortunately, I don't have that. I have parents who I care about what they think.
My father was the king of the joke-tellers. I was so impressed as a child watching him, holding people in rapt attention.
For some reason and I don't know why, but I don't think that I'm funny in California. So I always want to do my movies east somewhere.