Part of the reason why my folks - why any immigrant family - wants their kids to go into law or medicine is because there's the promise of reliable work. That's a powerful idea that got hammered into my head growing up: Be this thing, or else you'll starve.

Growing up as Chinese-American, as someone who experienced racism, questions of 'otherness' are always at the forefront of my mind.

Take 'Ex Machina.' Everyone said it was one of the great feminist works of science fiction. But what I found disappointing is that everything about the main female character is defined by men.

I think that comic books have appealed to female readers for years.

Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.

A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.

My parents are still married. They don't weigh 350 pounds; they go to the gym all the time.

In Hollywood, it seems that the people least successful at being married are the ones most eager to tie the knot over and over again.