Producer

The world that we live in isn't uniform-looking, and the future that we're headed toward isn't uniform-looking.

The range of my interests in science fiction - it really does run a gamut.

This kind of art - the dystopic future kind of art - is designed to make you uncomfortable.

Iconic jobs are interesting to deconstruct through therapy.

I've taken a number of creative leaps, and some of them worked, and some of them didn't, but I don't regret any of them because you can't possibly get to the ones that work without the ones that don't.

'Altered Carbon' is one of the most seminal pieces of post-cyberpunk hard science fiction out there - a dark, complex noir story that challenges our ideas of what it means to be human when all information becomes encodable, including the human mind.

The intersection of being female and a showrunner carries difficult challenges.

Violence in drama is an external contextualization of internal conflicts.

Being a superhero is a metaphor for a job that is overwhelming.

To be a working writer is the holy grail, where you don't have three other jobs on top of that.

It's always fair to criticize, to question, to engage about things like whitewashing and violence against women and choices of lack of diversity. All those things are really, really a good thing to talk about.

I personally believe that violence against women in our society is not going anywhere.

When you haven't met someone, regardless of whether they're an author or not, when you're taking their work, and you are in some way filtering it or interpreting it, of course there's potential for them to feel that you have, in some way, not lived up to what it could have been.

It was very, very important to me to represent a broader swath of humanity that often isn't seen in futuristic sci-fi.

All of us in the modern world are constructing our identities, largely through social media, for a larger audience.

There are certain expectations placed on writers if other people have put a value on their gender. I'm aware of the hundreds of tiny differences that happen when people are seeing your gender before they see something else.

For years, I have been inspired by the inventive and masterful storytelling of the 'SAO' franchise. I'm thrilled to get the opportunity to work with such talented partners to bring this cutting-edge yet timeless story to a new format at Skydance.

When I was a kid, my grandparents were Greek immigrants on my father's side. My grandfather used to read me Greek myths, in which there are a great many goddesses and stories of strong women. And I was entranced by them. Then I started reading science fiction very young, and I loved it.

One of my favorite stories is, I got fired off 'Bionic Woman' in part because I was told that I don't know how to write women, and they promptly replaced me with a guy. What I find lovely about the story is how unaware the white dude who said that to me was when he said it.

I don't have to spend a lot of time figuring out, 'Gosh, I wonder how guys feel,' because most every piece of art I look at invites me into that experience.