I never had a dream of becoming anything, someone really high or a politician.

The people like me because I don't have to pretend that I'm a good Muslim - when I talk about my faith, it's between me and my God.

In the United States, where we have more land than people, it is not at all difficult for persons in good health to make money.

I think any writer is a fool if he doesn't do it for money. There needs to be some kind of incentive in addition to the project. It all goes together. It's fun to sit there and think of characters and get them into action, then be paid for it. I can't believe it when writers tell me 'I don't want to show my work to anybody'.

With 'Women in Hollywood,' I didn't direct it, but I produced it, and what we did is followed the money of Hollywood and how that intersects with issues relating to women and, frankly, sexism.

There is a huge amount of wealth that's generated here in Silicon Valley.