BONNIE HAMMER

My parents did great and provided well, and gave all their kids personal, moral, ethical values, not a belief that we were entitled to something.

I'm very lucky that my husband is a true partner in child-rearing. If I get home late, he gets home early or vice-versa. I travel more, and he's able to spell me when I'm gone.

The biggest mistake to me is complacency.

My parents weren't at all in entertainment, but when I look back, something along the line prepared me and opened me up to entertainment.

From my point of view, 'Stranger in a Strange Land' isn't just a science fiction masterpiece; it also happens to be one of my favorite books ever.

My career is really, really important, and I love it, but the life highs - like seeing my son graduate - need to me to be more important than the career highs, which are fleeting.

'Farscape' is a fabulous vehicle for looking at ethical, moral, political, and social issues.

We are not born knowing how to hate; we are taught how to hate.

I'm a chick. I like shopping.

My very first real job in the industry was as a production assistant on a show called 'Infinity Factory' in 1976.

Sci-fi is speculative fiction. 'Field of Dreams' is sci-fi.

The younger me was motivated by a need to please others, by the pressure to climb the corporate ladder and make money, and by a fear of failure - all of which became more and more intense as I navigated the competitive landscape.

To put it bluntly, I feel relevant and valuable, and I am struggling to understand why, when women reach age 65, they encounter an invisible barrier of perception that says it's time to walk away. Shouldn't we have a choice in the matter? Shouldn't our experience and energy be worth more?

You may not know it now, if you studied communications or engineering, law or medicine, business or classics: you're a storyteller, too.

Summer is a great opportunity for all of cable. People love to find original episodes.

My mother was a full-time mom, and Dad started his own business. He was a mini-American dream story. Came from Russia at age 4, started his own pen business in Brooklyn. The company isn't around now, but he created his own healthy little world, leaving a decent legacy. My dad taught at Cooper Union but was never fully graduated himself.

There's so much interest and curiosity about alien life, interstellar travel. It's always in the news.

When I was a young executive, I was always nervous that my idea wouldn't be great. So I asked around, 'What do you think of this?' That became my filter for whether my idea was good enough. Then I realized it just plain made me smarter.

I read a lot of sci-fi when I was younger. Loved it from the literary point of view.

Many of the top-grossing movies of all time are science fiction.

Women have an instinct for what the market is. We have tremendous insight in terms of understanding products and consumerism.

We can sit back and be part of a hurting America, or we can channel our energy into something positive and do what we can to break the cycle of hate.

It's very hard to tell somebody how to write when they're so good, and they're a brilliant writer and a really good guy.

I have tremendous admiration for companies with the kind of pioneering spirit and innovation eBay has demonstrated from day one.

As any female executive with a family knows, you're making mental lists all through the night. You're often not sure you've managed to sleep at all.