When I was a kid, I wanted to be a writer, but I didn't think it would really be possible.

When I used to watch Westerns, I could admire the craft, but I never really loved them; they never spoke to me. Maybe because I'm first-generation American, I'm a woman, and I just didn't see myself reflected.

Audiences are just like us as writers - we grow attached to characters. In certain ways you don't want them to change.

One of the most consistent defining qualities of sentience is that we define it as human, as the thing that we possess that others do not.

The most damaging part of pervasive bias, whether it's implicit or complicit because sometimes it can be well-intentioned, is when that bias gets internalized and women start self-centering and stop thinking that they're incapable of achieving what they want and achieve empowerment.

And nowadays, the idea of AI is not really science fiction anymore - it's just science fact.

We drive a Tesla.

Westworld is an examination of human nature: the best parts of human nature... but also, violence, sexual violence have sadly been a fact of human history since the beginning of human history.

The sensibility I brought to directing was similar to what I bring when I write.

There are no coincidences in 'Westworld.'

I think the thing that will endure about Westworld will be the questions it poses.

Nobody ever has a problem if a man writes a woman. I wanted to be able to say, 'Well, I can write your men and your action, too. You don't just have to give me the love scenes, which I don't even think are my strong suit.'

I represent opportunities for other women and other people of color, and I'm trying to start my own kind of movement.

When we were thinking of 'Westworld' and doing it with HBO, what they really showed us is that they have the ambition in their network, and they value production value as much as we did, and that that would be a perfect place to do a show of this scope and this ambition.

I've always been fascinated by memory and I remember Jonah, when we first started dating, was working on something involving memory. It was early on in our relationship and I was like, damn it, I wanted to do a movie on memory. That was 'Memento.'

Working on 'Westworld' has been an incredible experience in learning to make something with the scope of a feature on a TV timeline with a budget nowhere near what you would expect for a feature film equivalent.

I do love Westerns. But, in a way, traditional Westerns, for me, have been hard to love viscerally and personally.

When I write a script, I have all the old versions of the script on my laptop. They're saved as backups in case something goes horribly wrong.

It's important to have people who will question you occasionally.

I feel like there is just never a good time for taking a chance and following your dreams - whatever those dreams are.

Fiction has always been a way of examining society and its flaws and trying to expose them.

Our memories, the way we tend to experience them, are sort of fuzzy around the edges, like a watercolor that has bled into the past and is not totally clear.

Even if you live to be a ripe old age, you live long enough to see the people you love pass away.

I don't see much of myself in the traditional Western hero.