In TV, when you come in to direct an episode, you are effectively learning an established language; you then have to try to learn to speak it really well. But on a movie, you are the guy. You are creating the language; you make most of the decisions.

Science fiction sometimes is fun because it reaches so far in the future.

I think calling for more women in every aspect of this industry is a sensible thing.

I used to play with model trains when I was a kid, and then I used to study history.

I don't just get to wiggle my nose and money drops out of the sky.

I'm somebody who doesn't work with a stylist. I'll be honest with you, I'm a mom and it's just not something I want to put money toward because it's expensive to have somebody who helps dress you and I feel like I have to pay for preschool and so many things... so I don't have a stylist.

An entrepreneur, whether man or woman, has to be willing to take help, whether financial or technical, to grow his or her business.

Sharia has become an increasingly significant force in American capitalism, thanks to the embrace by Wall Street and the U.S. government of so-called Sharia-Compliant Finance. Indeed, this country's taxpayers now own the largest purveyor of sharia-compliant insurance products in the world: AIG.