I'm not big on regret; I don't spend a lot of time on it.
Kristen Stewart is kind of captivating; she can just stare at stuff and it works because I still want to watch it.
I can do web, comic books, macrame, art.
I was a little bit ashamed of American TV because I thought, 'None of the shows my father works on are as funny as my father.'
Everything I write tends to turn into a superhero team, even if I didn't mean for it to. I always start off wanting to be solitary, because a) it's simpler, and b) that isolation is something that I relate to as a storyteller. And then no matter what, I always end up with a team.
People always say I write a lot of pop culture references. Can somebody please count the pop culture references in 'Firefly?' Because I don't know how to put this to you, but there was one. I referenced The Beatles in the pilot.
There are two things that interest me - and they're both power, ultimately. One is not having it and one is abusing it.
Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women.
I don't write just to be clever. But sometimes I do. And if you don't have an understanding of the language, then the way in which it's bent doesn't actually register. It's the old you-gotta-paint-like-them-before-you-can-paint-like-you thing.
Science fiction is like a blender - you can put in any historical experience and take influences from everything you see, read or experience.
I like to think that I'm a populist entertainer, but I'm a little bit idiosyncratic, and sometimes the networks wouldn't really roll with that.
The thing with the comics is that you have license to go down every alley your brain can think of.
I'm never interested in movies where you don't care about the people you're watching, and that's my biggest quibble about horror, that kids have gotten stupider and stupider.
That's the great thing about 'The West Wing:' you really felt like you were in the thick of it.
I like horror; I like comedy; I like drama; I like action; I like female heroes.
I never tire of the heroes that I knew growing up.
