I had a lot of college debt. It's very difficult to go to a university that is as expensive as Stanford and then blindly follow your passions when they don't immediately make money out of the gate.
I log on and there are so many cookies embedded in my computer - it's like they know what I need before I do.
For me, when I started writing, it was mostly poetry. And poetry is very visual. I feel the same way about the way that I approach direction. There might be a theme within the visuals that you're choosing that people don't consciously pick up on, but that they feel.
I need to be believe that dragons are real. I want them be a real thing.
But I'm the child of a tiger mom.
Feeling trapped in identity isn't just the purview of women and minorities.
I try not to look at press. However, I have a mother, who will gladly tell me what's going on out there.
What does the future of 'Westworld' look like? I don't necessarily think that we've seen the last of these artificial worlds that are central to the concept of our series as a whole. But the major lens that we will have is going to be the real world.
But in a TV series, you can really take a novelistic approach and explore characters that you wouldn't ordinarily see, in a level of complexity that you wouldn't ordinarily get to explore just out of the sheer time constraints in a feature.
I didn't need a harassment scandal to break out in Hollywood or misogynistic people in government to know they exist. Anybody who's a woman, a minority, or a thinking, perceiving male can see that it exists.
I think it's a very powerful notion, the notion that our personal views, although closely held, are not necessarily right. That part of what is noble is making sure there are checks and balances and a plurality of opinions.
Since time immemorial we've explored these ideas of tragedy, the things people do for love, the great weight that occurs when love is taken away and the great length and the heroism that people will exhibit to fight for the ones that they love.
Our memories, the way we tend to experience them, are sort of fuzzy around the edges, like a watercolor that has bled into the past and is not totally clear.
Fiction has always been a way of examining society and its flaws and trying to expose them.
I feel like there is just never a good time for taking a chance and following your dreams - whatever those dreams are.
The biggest thing my parents gave me was this feeling of, not 'dream big,' but strive big.
I would say that, between us, I tend to be a little bit more philosophically optimistic. Jonah, I think he sees things as more finite.
I personally am not so obsessed about immortality for myself. The human body has been designed that way, obsolescence is OK.
It's important to have people who will question you occasionally.
When I write a script, I have all the old versions of the script on my laptop. They're saved as backups in case something goes horribly wrong.
