Everything I do is going to contain the message that men who are going to be comfortable with powerful women are going to be more powerful men

Everything I write tends to turn into a superhero team, even if I didn't mean for it to. I always start off wanting to be solitary, because a) it's simpler, and b) that isolation is something that I relate to as a storyteller. And then no matter what, I always end up with a team.

The news isn't there to tell you what happened. It's there to tell you what it wants you to hear or what it thinks you want to hear.

This landing is gonna get pretty interesting. Define "interesting". "Oh God, oh God, we're all going to die"? [on speakerphone]: This is the captain: we have a little problem with our entry sequence so we may experience some slight turbulence, then explode.

What's plan b?' 'We all die now.' 'What's plan c?

You either believe women are people or you don't. It's that simple.

In TV, there's so much compromise, it does start to grate a bit. But if you're a writer or an actor, it really is the place to be.