I'm not sure if I should say this, and it might sound arrogant of me, but I think there is a tendency to view female characters as consumer products.

In the past, I always set definitive goals for myself, but I've stopped doing that.

The movie 'Scandal Makers' did so much better than I had thought. During that phase of my career, the people around me warned me that whatever goes up could always come back down.

When I got tied up in a big lawsuit with my previous agency, I seriously thought my career was over.

We need policy change, and the most important thing people can do is to contribute and participate in the political process. We have to vote climate change deniers and people who will create subsidies for the fossil fuel industry out of office. We have to protest when bad decisions are being made about fracking or tar sands.

Companies that make keys, credit card companies, any company in the service business - anything to do with a consumer is probably a software company.

I have been working in male-dominated industries most of my life. When I started my career in investment banking, I was one of two women in my analyst class.

I've learned that it's important to listen to employees at all levels, to engage them, to empower them. Whether you're a first-line supervisor or the head of an entire agency, you should be asking career staffers, 'What do you think?'