I always tend to think just left of center, to remove myself from the world by one step. It is very freeing, and it's a particular way of coming at stories and looking at them that I find the most beautiful stuff that I know comes from, ultimately.

Especially, I think, living in any fantasy or science fiction world means really understanding what you're seeing and reading really densely on a level that a lot of people don't bother to read.

Wonder Woman isn't Spider-man or Batman. She doesn't have a town, she has a world. That was more interesting to me than a kind of contained, rote superhero franchise.

The thing with the comics is that you have license to go down every alley your brain can think of.

I always want to make sure I'm telling a story about people that I care about.

My dad would go to work every day and write in a room full of funny people. He enjoyed it. I know great writers who find the process agonising but to me, writing has always been sheer joy.

The fact is some people really love my work, some people not so much, but at the end of the day, I don't want anybody coming out of the movie thinking about me.

The master plan does not have a master plan. Television ultimately finds itself, and after it finds itself, it finds itself changing.

I've often said there's no such thing as a track record in TV. I seen people who created things much more successful than mine treated like dirt.

I like horror; I like comedy; I like drama; I like action; I like female heroes.

The people who feel the most strongly about something will turn on you the most vociferously if they feel you've let them down.

I just love language. I mean, I love it. I love stage directions. Any opportunity to write. I hadn't written in so long, I get very crazy and miserable. I - it's like not seeing my kids: I can't do it for very long.

I've had so much success. I had something to say, I got to say it, people heard it, and they agreed. That's every artist's dream. That's the brass ring.

I don't tend to write straight dramas where real life just impinges. But because I don't, when I do, it is very interesting to slap people in the face with just an absolute of life.

Writers are completely out of touch with reality. Writers are a crazy person. We create conflict - for a living. We do this all the time, sometimes on a weekly basis; we create horrible, incredible circumstances and then figure a way out of them. That's what we do.

I never write anything without humor, just because I like humor, but at the same time, it is a way for anything fantastical to become relatable.

You don't buy a Picasso because you love the frame.

Casting is storytelling.

I was raised by a hardcore feminist.

I didn't watch a lot of American television growing up. I just liked to read a lot and watch movies - movies, movies, and more movies. My family used to make fun of me because I'd like every movie I saw.

It's only recently women got to be action heroes on TV. Progress is slow, and often non-existent. There's plenty of cool comics with female characters... But all it takes is one Catwoman to set the cause back a decade.

Who is to say who is the villain and who is the hero? Probably the dictionary.

A writer is supposed to have anonymity.

I don't think I'm a celebrity. Maybe I'm a cult figure?