Bonnie Hammer

My career is really, really important, and I love it, but the life highs - like seeing my son graduate - need to me to be more important than the career highs, which are fleeting. ”

Farscape' is a fabulous vehicle for looking at ethical, moral, political, and social issues. ”

I'm a big believer that sci-fi lives in literature, that the true sci-fi population is out there reading a gazillion authors. ”

I'm very lucky that my husband is a true partner in child-rearing. If I get home late, he gets home early or vice-versa. I travel more, and he's able to spell me when I'm gone. ”

What keeps me up is always raising the bar, and what makes my team happiest and also most worrisome is I'm always asking for more. ”

There were a lot of misperceptions that Sci Fi was for men: that it was for young men, and that it was for geeky young men. We had to broaden the channel to change the misconceptions of the genre. ”

You can't change how people act, but what you can change is how you react. ”

Political Animals' was before its time: a little darker, a little edgier. The audience wasn't ready for it. ”

Many of the top-grossing movies of all time are science fiction. ”

To put it bluntly, I feel relevant and valuable, and I am struggling to understand why, when women reach age 65, they encounter an invisible barrier of perception that says it's time to walk away. Shouldn't we have a choice in the matter? Shouldn't our experience and energy be worth more? ”