Little Britain… Ever Since It First Came

For Years, It's Driven Me Crazy That Women Don't Have Better Roles, Especially In Comedies. I Know So Many Funny Women But I Always Felt... Misogynist Streak Is Too Strong A Term - But A Dismissiveness.

As A Director, I Really Wanted To Learn And I Needed To Get Away From My Own Stuff To Figure Out How To Just Do Things And Work With Good People.

I'm The Biggest Proponent Of Test Screenings Now. There's Two Ways To Face Test Screenings. For Dramas, I Don't Know If I Would Rely On Them As Much, Although I Still Think You Need Them, Because You're Making A Movie For An Audience At The End Of The Day. But With Comedy... You Could Go Through A Script Or Anything I Ever Worked On, Where You Go, "this Is Hilarious," And You Put It In Front Of People And You Get Nothing. And Then The Other Side Of It, Is Something You're Like, "i Think This Is Really Stupid," And It Gets A Giant Laugh.

That's The Thing With Women's Movies - There's So Much About Kind Of Catfighting. And My Experience Is Women Aren't - Look, We All Get In Fights With People, But It's Not That Face-to-face Aggression.

The Reason Most Comedies Don't Win Awards Is That The Filmmakers Put The Comedy First. This Means You Have To Create A Story Around The Jokes.