Directing doesn't appeal to me. I'm much more in the world of ideas.

Everyone is given one gift, a reason for being, and it's our obligation to do something with it.

Don't give up. You're going to get kicked in the teeth. A lot. Learn to take a hit, then pick yourself up off the floor. Resilience is the true key to success.

Because I work in television, I always knew that I loved working with writers. It's very collaborative. You're always in a room full of writers.

I got so lucky on my 'Red Widow' cast. It was just the universe looking out for me that I got those actors. It's a big ensemble cast, a very international cast. I don't know how that happened.

Trish "Patsy" Walker is just one of my favorite characters and she was a big comic character in the '40s.

With any sci-fi fantasy storytelling, you must have rules be very clear, otherwise you lose people, like 'OK, they can fly; now they can't fly.'

The number of vacations me and my husband have canceled... if you really want a job, book a non-refundable vacation. But obviously we're blessed too.

I love that as a theme for women: Stop standing by! You've got to make stuff happen! You've got to create your own world because if you let other people do it, they're going to just screw you.

With a film, you have to pare down and take stuff out and squish it all down into a 110 page script.

The only kind of film I want to write is a story where I can keep on seeing the stories play out. I'm a huge television fan, and I'm a huge continuing storyline fan.

Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.

To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead.

When you have rules to abide by, does that curtail you as a designer, or set you free? People think of classical architecture visually, but I think the brilliant part of it is actually spatial.

Children have an uncanny way of living up - or down - to what is expected of them.

I started in radio, again accidentally. I wasn't looking for this kind of work at all.

You see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town.

It is unimaginable that the United States would have to contribute hundreds of billions of dollars and highly unlikely that we would have to contribute even tens of billions of dollars.

When a person is accustomed to one hundred and thirty-eight in the shade, his ideas about cold weather are not valuable.

I like to write, I like to do stand-up, I like to act.

Incessant company is as bad as solitary confinement.