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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.
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Iconic jobs are interesting to deconstruct through therapy.
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The intersection of being female and a showrunner carries difficult challenges.
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Being a superhero is a metaphor for a job that is overwhelming.
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It was very, very important to me to represent a broader swath of humanity that often isn't seen in futuristic sci-fi.
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Violence in drama is an external contextualization of internal conflicts.
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I personally believe that violence against women in our society is not going anywhere.
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Of course I worry about whitewashing, and I feel very strongly that whitewashing was, is, and continues to be a problem in entertainment.
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'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.
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The essential nature of all filmed entertainment is that you area always straddling the line of whether or not you can realize something that you want to do.
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The emotional passage of time is always a good thing.
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