I had a great time in my youth and I still feel youthful. I've no desire to look as though I'm in my 20s.

I'm a good businessman. I pay my bills. Growing up in a situation where everything counted helps.

My curiosity and my appetite for evolving as an actor is one of the main components of me still working today in the business.

A pilot is like the most extensive dress rehearsal you can ever imagine, because the writers are learning about the actors, the actors are learning about the characters.

I didn't really chart things out, career-wise.

Creativity has got to have some edge to it, doesn't it?

I stand here as the mother of three children, who knows firsthand how difficult it can be to combine family and a career.

You can't be a 21st-century science fiction writer writing about Mars without doing tips of the hat to Edgar Rice Burroughs, to Ray Bradbury, to H.G. Wells, to the guys who first put it in the public imagination that Mars was an exciting place.