Everyone is given one gift, a reason for being, and it's our obligation to do something with it. Obviously, it's a challenge - but if you're not taking the bull by the horns, I have no patience for you. You're just taking up space.

I think going into ‘New Moon,’ I knew the characters better. I knew the world better and I knew the actors who would be playing these roles. I had a sense of their rhythms and tones. ‘Twilight’ I was writing in a vacuum. We hadn’t cast it yet.

Jessica Jones is the first female superhero Marvel’s ever introduced as a lead.

I think one of the major differences between Wonder Woman and Jessica Jones is that Wonder Woman is iconic and much better known, so you get into a lot of ridiculous expectations, like what’s her costume going to look like? Well, nobody knows who Jessica Jones is, except for fangirls and boys.

Directing doesn’t appeal to me. I’m much more in the world of ideas.

When you have a show that’s called Jessica Jones, if Jessica Jones isn’t in a scene the rest of it become almost irrelevant until you earn other character storylines. You’ve got to flesh out those characters enough that you can travel.

Women, in general, are very passionate fans, and that’s what you love about them.

TV is very much my first love. I love this world. It’s where writers have the most creative control, and I just love that.

The only kind of film I want to write is a story where I can keep on seeing the stories play out. I’m a huge television fan, and I’m a huge continuing storyline fan.

With any sci-fi fantasy storytelling, you must have rules be very clear, otherwise you lose people, like ‘OK, they can fly; now they can’t fly.’