One of the most poignant pieces of recent science fiction for me was the portrayal of the adults in the Pixar film WALL-E. I feel like we're on the cusp of becoming fat babies in floating chairs being fed everything in shake form, and I feel like I am as prone to laziness as anybody.

If you don't look at yourself and evaluate it, you instead see how the world's reacting to it.

When I was in fourth grade, we were learning vocabulary words, and the word nonconformist came up. The teacher said, "It's somebody who whatever everybody is doing, they do the opposite." I remember raising my hand and saying, "Mrs. Christiansen, I would like to be a nonconformist."

Just stand up for your principals and be loyal to your friends and family.

If I put down my tweeter machine for a minute, I actually can communicate with people. As an aside, astonishingly, I just started doing Twitter.

A lot of people find themselves in the entertainment business - or perhaps society steers them toward it - because they're beautiful.

I think that laziness in many ways is the human condition, and that's what has led us to this place where, as we've developed technology.