Zitat des Tages von Kay Cannon:
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.
It's not about having luck; it's about putting yourself in a position of luck.
Second City Las Vegas is very different from Second City in Chicago on the main stage, where they do improv sets. That's how they kind of hone material, kind of work up to new material.
There's still only maybe three female writers or two female writers to 10 guys in any kind of writer's room.
'Hot Pursuit,' 'Pitch Perfect 2,' 'Trainwreck,' and 'Spy' were all being done in the last year. All four of those movies I just mentioned are not rom-coms: they're all about women doing different things.
I've seen 'Bring It On,' like, a thousand times.
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, they made it cool to be funny and to be embarrassed and to look a thousand different ways and show a bunch of different areas of their lives.
I feel like the guilds are, just to be frank, people I pay money to.
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 started writing when I was trying to be an actor, and I happened to be friends with Tina Fey, who happened to have her show '30 Rock' coming out. So Tina, who happens to be a mentor to me, gave me my slot and hired me.
I was the runt of the family, the shortest and the smallest, so I think they perceived me as the one who was like, 'Look at me!' - just trying to get their attention and being a goofball.
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 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?
I was in relays for track where you just bonded with all these different kinds of personalities who were coming together for this one common goal of beating a rival team.
Even if I wrote 'The Kay Cannon Show,' I would have to audition to play Kay Cannon. And I probably wouldn't get it.
I have to say, my husband is a big Patriots fan. Like, a huge Patriots fan.
'Bridesmaids,' I think, opened up a door to allow women to show a bunch of different women in different ways of being funny. It was kind of like an arrival moment.
I wake up around seven, and I give my daughter breakfast. I spend the first hour or two of her day with her.
I've got to literally write my own ticket.
I was an athlete, so I have kind of an athletic sensibility towards writing. I can work for many long hours without fatiguing.
It's interesting: when you're kind of 'known' for being a writer, people don't think you've done anything else.
I played volleyball and basketball, and I did track and volleyball in college.
I started writing because I wasn't getting things as an actor.
People try to make women a very specific thing so that we like them.
Everything that makes us who we are is A-O.K.
I was working at 'New Girl' when I found out there was going to be a 'Pitch' sequel.
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.
'Pitch Perfect' was my first screenplay, so it was like my little baby.
