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

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.

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.

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

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.

If your leadership is truly grounded in love, you’ll always land in the category of a good leader.

Sorrow spares no one, and scars respect no person.

Be what you are not. The true self is no one.

To him it was a sort of hyperspace-librarian, girl-geek thing that he found clever and fetching without attracting him in a way that would have been creepy.

I had an inspirational teacher at my junior school: Peter Nixon. He was enthusiastic, knowledgeable and slightly scary - a good combination for a teacher.

Right now, Vee was the only person I could count on. She could be obnoxious,annoying, and lazy, but she never lied to me.

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

I've always found too that somewhere in whatever you've just written lies the seed of what you're going to write next.

Record designers marvel on that stuff. They go back and look at old covers, then make new ones.

Only one deception is possible in the infinite sense, self-deception.