People still go to Comic-Con because they love comics.

Invest in your brain, invest in your talents. Those things can appreciate and they get better as you get older.

In high school, I was on the youth advisory council for the Mayor's Office of Los Angeles, and that was kind of my first experience in the bureaucratic system. We tried to get things done, and nobody was really interested in getting anything done.

When a thing you love faces adversity, you start to feel more protective of it. Also, you take an inventory all the time. You ask yourself, "Is this worth all my fighting?"

Everything is about consumerism. If there's money to be made, there will be an audience and people will feel empowered and I truly believe that women haven't fully tapped into their potential as a market.

I love romantic comedies. I have a deep respect for them. I think they're really difficult to write and write well.

You can't be an openly gay movie star. You can't be an openly gay pop star, really - minus Ricky Martin.