The more power that we have, the less human we are.

If I had created reality television I would have had a much greater influence, but then I would have had to KILL MYSELF.

I don't have a particular ambition in any medium. I just want to keep telling stories. If somebody pays me, also good.

Writers are completely out of touch with reality. Writers are crazy [people]. We create conflict - for a living. We do this all the time, sometimes on a weekly basis, we create horrible, incredible circumstances and then figure a way out of them. That's what we do.

I was raised by a hardcore feminist.

People used to laugh that academics would study Disney movies. There's nothing more important for academics to study, because they shape the minds of our children possibly more than any single thing.

We have done the impossible. And that makes us mighty.