If you're female, and you want to express your femininity, you're actually demonized in the 'Free To Be... You And Me' generation.

I always love the soapy conflicts between somebody's family of origin and their new family - 'Do I have Thanksgiving at my husband's parents' house, or at my parents' house?'

Your first job, I tell people I mentor, is managing your affect. Be nice and say nice things. Make it so that the people walk away from interacting with you and say, 'That was fun.' That will make them want to come back and do it again.

I think of myself as a producer. As a producer and as a showrunner, I already understand what it meant to gather people into a room and step back, to create the boundaries of 'everything's okay' to allow TV writers to go to their craziest places.

I felt Brighton was a perfect ending to a really interesting career.

I'm a freelance writer, and I work alone at a big desk in the living room of my apartment. There are many days when I don't utter a single word to anyone but my husband.

The truth is, the game industry is a really incredibly difficult place for women to work.

I gravitated to New York City in the late '70s to pursue a career in visual art, which is what I trained in at university.