Laeta Kalogridis Quotes

Laeta Kalogridis

Profession : Producer

Birth : August 30, 1965

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

Laeta Kalogridis

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.

Laeta Kalogridis

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.

Laeta Kalogridis

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

Laeta Kalogridis

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

Laeta Kalogridis

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.

Laeta Kalogridis

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.

Laeta Kalogridis

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

Laeta Kalogridis

Like a lot of people, I sold my first script in graduate school at UCLA, a 'Joan of Arc' for producer Joel Silver.

Laeta Kalogridis

Violence in drama is an external contextualization of internal conflicts.

Laeta Kalogridis

On one hand, my gender has never been an issue. The issue has always been what's on the page. But the reality is, an awful lot of women fought an awful lot of battles to get me to that place.

Laeta Kalogridis

'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.

Laeta Kalogridis

Honestly, I would never say, 'Oh, I've decided not to read 'The Left Hand of Darkness' because I've seen 'Blade Runner.' I've decided not to read 'Neuromancer' because I've seen 'Blade Runner.''

Laeta Kalogridis

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

Laeta Kalogridis