I think when you're working with a character that another writer is acting as - for lack of a better word - custodian of, your obligation as a professional is to not do anything that violates that 'primary' take.

Character is made up of a variety of different things. One of those elements is gender.

The goal with 'Alpha' was to run towards the cliches and then to break through them, and that doesn't change depending on the medium.

There was a time in my career when my hackles would really get raised if someone came in and said, 'We need you to do this or that.' But the fact of the matter is, you're working in a shared universe, and all elements of the universe are, ideally, going to mesh and work together. That's my goal. I want to be on the team.

Family caregiving has become a predictable crisis. Americans are living longer and longer but dying slower and slower.

I've always been terrified of dying, always. It was a concern of mine long before it had to be.

To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.

I've realised darkness and light are inter-dependent, just as death is an enhancer of life.