Don't worry about what happens when things go wrong; just accept that they're going to, and figure out how do you want to cope with it when it does.
I'm a geek! I'm a fan girl; I'm very proud of that. Get me near Orlando Jones, it will not be pretty.
One of my favorite stories is, I got fired off 'Bionic Woman' in part because I was told that I don't know how to write women, and they promptly replaced me with a guy. What I find lovely about the story is how unaware the white dude who said that to me was when he said it.
When I was a kid, my grandparents were Greek immigrants on my father's side. My grandfather used to read me Greek myths, in which there are a great many goddesses and stories of strong women. And I was entranced by them. Then I started reading science fiction very young, and I loved it.
I just never count on anything. You can't.
Honestly, I would never say, 'Oh, I've decided not to read 'The Left Hand of Darkness' because I've seen 'Blade Runner.' I've decided not to read 'Neuromancer' because I've seen 'Blade Runner.''
On one hand, my gender has never been an issue. The issue has always been what's on the page. But the reality is, an awful lot of women fought an awful lot of battles to get me to that place.
'Altered Carbon' is one of the most seminal pieces of post-cyberpunk hard science fiction out there - a dark, complex noir story that challenges our ideas of what it means to be human when all information becomes encodable, including the human mind.
It was very, very important to me to represent a broader swath of humanity that often isn't seen in futuristic sci-fi.
I personally believe that violence against women in our society is not going anywhere.
Being a superhero is a metaphor for a job that is overwhelming.
Violence in drama is an external contextualization of internal conflicts.
Iconic jobs are interesting to deconstruct through therapy.
The emotional passage of time is always a good thing.
Our worst instincts as human beings have to do with our carelessness with natural resources, and when the body itself becomes just one more of those resources, how will we treat it? Will we treat it with such indifference and with such depersonalization that it becomes more like a very fancy car than a repository of the self?
Of course I worry about whitewashing, and I feel very strongly that whitewashing was, is, and continues to be a problem in entertainment.
This kind of art - the dystopic future kind of art - is designed to make you uncomfortable.
There was a brief period in college where I flirted with the idea of becoming a lawyer because my father was one. But I was cured of it rather swiftly.
The range of my interests in science fiction - it really does run a gamut.
The essential nature of all filmed entertainment is that you area always straddling the line of whether or not you can realize something that you want to do.
