When you're doing fantasy, you can get so caught up in the magic of it that you lose the humanity.

How someone treats a waiter or doorman can tell you so much about a person.

I was home schooled starting in seventh grade.

When you're at dinner with somebody and they are on their phone. I think there's that lost art of conversation and so I just always try to keep my phone far away from me when I'm with people.

I love English girls! I adore all their different accents. Who knows, I could find a British girlfriend on my travels!

I went through a period when I was rebellious and a mess of a person.

When I was a kid and I would play pretend, I would end up with blood everywhere and I would cut my feet up. I love the feeling of it being real.

My grandpa was a cowboy. He roped cattle out in Texas and Arizona. Growing up, I'd see him maybe once a year and he'd always get me on a horse at some point. But each time I'd have to learn again.

There is hardly anything more confusing than a really strong-willed woman and when you are surrounded by two of them in the midst of trying to save the world, it really adds to some drama!

When you're just writing, you can do anything with it. But with TV, you've gotta work within certain budget constraints, so you've got to pick and choose your battles.

I've always been really into action movies. Since I was little, that was my favorite type of film.

No God, Religion, Race or Nation is higher than the humans.

Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.

My father told me that it is only a mad man that keeps bushy hairs. I asked him, "what about the great men with bushy hairs?". He replied, "education had made them mad, so study to be wise and sane.

Facebook has been spreading across the continents faster than a highly contagious Asian bird flu!

I do believe in [Robert] Bresson's method of creation through omission, not through addition.

I always knew the woman I wanted to be-I knew I wanted to be a woman who was independent a woman who was in the driving seat, a woman who didn't need for the man to decide.

In the history of the hip hop world...there has been one, single, solitary human being in the history of the world. One female rapper to sell more albums than me in the first week.

The understanding of mathematics is necessary for a sound grasp of ethics.

Learn continually - there's always "one more thing" to learn!

There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist fighting for peace by nonviolent methods most easily succumbs; activism and overwork.