I am not a man of the sea.

I tell my team you have to aim for success, but assume failure.

Look at climate change. That's a bigger problem than plastic, but we can't all focus on that and forget about plastic - that isn't how the world works. We can divide our attention across different things, using clean-up to strengthen prevention.

Whenever you start working on something, you have to go about it with the underlying assumption that this puzzle has a solution, right? If you started a jigsaw puzzle not knowing whether all the pieces were in the box, it would not be a fun exercise.

I am quite obsessive by nature.

What humans aren't good at is trying to consume less, to consume less plastic, to not be lazy.

We absolutely need to clean up the plastic that's already in the ocean. It won't go away by itself. But we do also need to make sure that no more plastic enters the oceans in the first place. These things should go hand in hand.

I'm a firm believer of the venture capitalist-style approach to solving problems. Rather than doing many small things that you hope add up, it's much more effective to work on projects that are high risk and high reward.

I've always been obsessed with technology.

When I was 16 years old, I went scuba diving in Greece and saw more plastic bags than fish. I wondered why we couldn't just clean it up. That rather simple question stuck in my head.

There will always be people saying things can't be done. And history shows that time and time again things 'couldn't be done' and they were done.

There's no better feeling than having an idea and seeing it become reality, emerging in the physical world.

There's so much interest and curiosity about alien life, interstellar travel. It's always in the news.

We may be more sophisticated in how we hide it, but there are still so many phobias in this world, whether it's Islamophobia, xenophobia or homophobia. I've been trying to do things that expose and help teach and draw attention to all of the 'isms' and how we do or don't deal with them in our world.

Summer is a great opportunity for all of cable. People love to find original episodes.

I will never not take anyone's phone call.

I'm a chick. I like shopping.

Women have an instinct for what the market is. We have tremendous insight in terms of understanding products and consumerism.

When I was a young executive, I was always nervous that my idea wouldn't be great. So I asked around, 'What do you think of this?' That became my filter for whether my idea was good enough. Then I realized it just plain made me smarter.

My mother was a full-time mom, and Dad started his own business. He was a mini-American dream story. Came from Russia at age 4, started his own pen business in Brooklyn. The company isn't around now, but he created his own healthy little world, leaving a decent legacy. My dad taught at Cooper Union but was never fully graduated himself.

I read a lot of sci-fi when I was younger. Loved it from the literary point of view.

Sci-fi is speculative fiction. 'Field of Dreams' is sci-fi.

Horror is a part of science fiction. It belongs in the definition of sci-fi.

I think reading a room - reading the personalities, reading body language - is kind of a lost art.