New kinds of heroics need to be celebrated - like love, thoughtfulness, forgiveness, diplomacy - or we're not going to get there.

Superhero movies are so famous because of the metaphor that they trigger in one's self about who you could be if things were different.

My fantasy is that I could wake up looking amazing, that I could be strong and stop the bully, but that everybody would love me, too. I think that's intrinsic to fantasy - fantasy is fantasy.

I have a real pet peeve for women who play damaged characters but don't look damaged.

Any sympathy won for Aileen Wuornos based on a lie is not sympathy at all. The question is, can we have sympathy for the circumstances of someone's life? That's what I was interested in.

There's an idea that action movies are more attractive to one gender than the other or different kinds of people or whatever. The truth is action is not any different than any other part of a story.

Raising d'être(reason for being)

You can't think on purpose about somebody or something. Either you think about them naturally or you don't think at all.

Mine is a jealous heart, imagines things that never are.

Instead of telling the world what you're eating for breakfast, you can use social networking to do something that's meaningful.

Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.

You don't have to hold a position to be a leader.

I always believe that if you feel good and look happy, you're always going to be beautiful. My one actual beauty trick is pretty cliche: Never, ever go to bed with your makeup on.

Nonviolence is not an easy thing to understand, still less to practice, weak as we are.

Rule number one for the writers when we committed to the jump was: no hoverboards. No one is allowed to pitch that everyone is on hoverboards. It's going to be very very gently sci-fi.