Directing was rarely a thought in my head growing up. Especially not when I first began acting or working on my first professional sets.

That's the cool thing about relationships. You're relating to someone else. It's another thing to balance who you are off of.

I think social media has a lot of negative impact and negative effects. These are fairly extreme and horrifying and really gruesome.

It's always interesting when you throw two people in a room and have them try to biologically, immediately connect, but that's biology's job.

I was always extremely creative. I was very artistic and never strong with numbers or science. I wanted to be an artist or a fashion designer. I wanted to be something that allowed for a lot of imagination.

One of the problems we've had is that the ICT curriculum in the past has been written for a subject that is changing all the time. I think that what we should have is computer science in the future - and how it fits in to the curriculum is something we need to be talking to scientists, to experts in coding and to young people about.

Science fiction isn't just thinking about the world out there. It's also thinking about how that world might be - a particularly important exercise for those who are oppressed, because if they're going to change the world we live in, they - and all of us - have to be able to think about a world that works differently.

The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.