Our worst instincts as human beings have to do with our carelessness with natural resources, and when the body itself becomes just one more of those resources, how will we treat it? Will we treat it with such indifference and with such depersonalization that it becomes more like a very fancy car than a repository of the self? Laeta Kalogridis Read Quote
Of course I worry about whitewashing, and I feel very strongly that whitewashing was, is, and continues to be a problem in entertainment. Laeta Kalogridis Read Quote
This kind of art – the dystopic future kind of art – is designed to make you uncomfortable. Laeta Kalogridis Read Quote
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. Laeta Kalogridis Read Quote
There was a brief period in college where I flirted with the idea of becoming a lawyer because my father was one. But I was cured of it rather swiftly. Laeta Kalogridis Read Quote
Don’t worry about what happens when things go wrong; just accept that they’re going to, and figure out how do you want to cope with it when it does. Laeta Kalogridis Read Quote
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. Laeta Kalogridis Read Quote
The range of my interests in science fiction – it really does run a gamut. Laeta Kalogridis Read Quote
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. Laeta Kalogridis Read Quote
