A lot of science started off as magic, where people were burned at the stake for doing science basically.

I love writing family stories.

There always seemed to be a place for God and, to me, it seemed like God was a place in the unknown side of the ledger.

I've always been sort of entrepreneurial. ... I felt that I needed to learn how to write and produce so I could write my own thing and not worry about Hollywood finding me.

Science was the known and then people would place God in the unknown, like God explained the unknown.

My basic political philosophy is, I ain't mad at that. Which basically means I don't have to have a strong opinion about everything. I'm too tired most of the time. Why do I have to take a stand on everything? Sometimes I'm just not mad at it. Like, What do you think about gay marriage? I ain't mad at you, you're gay and you're married: I ain't mad at you, go do it.

The Oscar nominations are out, and they're so white a grand jury has decided not to indict them.