True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence.

I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such a way that the reader has immediate confidence in the strength of the building.

I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress.

But for Republicans and conservatives, it’s both willfully ignorant and negligent not to acknowledge that there is in fact a scientific consensus that the Earth is warming and man is responsible for much of it."

My hope is that in the future, women stop referring to themselves as 'the only woman' in their physics lab or 'only one of two' in their computer science jobs.

So we've moved from an era when women's biology was women's destiny to today, which is an era in which men's biology is men's destiny.

In terms of 'The Discovery' being a Netflix Original, they actually came on once we had already started shooting.