Identity is something that you are constantly earning.

Veronica solves little puzzles because she, like all of us, cannot unravel the bigger ones.

There's a reason Tony Stark makes fun of 'Thor,' and mentions 'Shakespeare' in the park in 'The Avengers.' It's great to play high drama and comedy alongside a modern story.

Kristen Stewart is kind of captivating; she can just stare at stuff and it works because I still want to watch it.

Absolutely eat dessert first. The thing that you want to do the most, do that.

It seemed to be a fundamental thing that women have something men don't, the obvious being an ability to bear children, and the resilience to hang in as parents. I don't understand why or how anyone ever pulled off the whole idea of "women are inferior".

Limitations are something that I latch onto - like working in genre, or if you're writing TV, there are act breaks, there's a length of time it's supposed to be. The restrictions of budget and sets can be really useful. When you can have everything, it's very hard to make things feel real and lived in.