"It's the nicest thing when you're constantly surprised by your partner." — Ol Parker

The structure and formula are now so well-known that it's become very hard for the film-maker not to commit the cardinal sin: letting the audience get ahead of the film. So it takes some real sparkle - of which I thought 'Man Up' had plenty, especially in the writing - to keep the viewer enjoying a by-now predictable journey.

'It could be better' is the only thing that anyone should write in the margins of their own script.

It's always tricky when someone who's not used to it volunteers to be an extra and you want to go, 'Listen, you're going to be sitting there for a long time.'

I mean, movies need distraction.

The trajectory of most movies is that you start off writing a sensitive movie about a couple in their 40's getting divorced, and then, three years later, you look at each other on set while you're making a film about lesbian cheerleaders. You're like, 'How did that happen?!'

I hired people who would help me, you know, like a director of photography who wouldn't blind me with jargon about ratios and pull-downs.

Being a teenager anyway is incredibly intense and every moment is invested with ferocious importance.

Look, I'd take a suggestion from my grandmother if I thought it would improve a film I was writing.

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It's the nicest thing when you're constantly surprised by your partner.