If we can't write diversity into sci-fi, then what's the point? You don't create new worlds to give them all the same limits of the old ones.

Never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence. Think about it. People aren't out to get you, they're just stupid.

Melissa [ Rosenberg] really has mastered coming from character. Everything radiates from the characters in this work. You don't feel like anything's imposed.

If something needed to be written, if something needed to be polished, needed to be re-written, I was just handed pages.

In the case of judges, I wouldn't be shocked to find out the number on television exceeds the number in real life — what is it about those black robes that makes us think ovaries?

Movies are always made by committees, and the writer is not at the head of the committee. Thus, mush.

You embraced what was already on the page, worked with it, massaged it.