I've always been interested in space and the idea of exploration in that area since I was a child growing up through the '60s.

It's in everyone's best interest to help close the gender gap in the sciences.

Philosophy changes day by day.

A journey into space is the greatest adventure I can imagine.

I've been a tomboy my whole life. But then you get older, you get married, you soften up.

Not to disparage anything, but most vampire stories tend to be romance novels that are 'Twilight'-ish with metrosexual guys.

After a life deprived of everything from romantic love to the choice of when to wake up in the morning, after 29 years without the ability to have a career or even to be alone at toilet, the Bijani sisters are not symbols but women who have had to live a shared life of constant, quotidian sacrifice.

What I really like about Woody Allen's films is that there's a real investment in personal relationships. There is the idea that this is a serious concern worth making serious art about - how we love other people and how we can negotiate our relationships with them.