It also is true that some ideas naturally work themselves out over a longer period of time than a single human life can encompass..

I think whatever is going on with my brain, I'm very, very - and I'm not saying this as a positive thing, it's just a fact - I'm very creative. I hav….

I like to plan everything out and know exactly what we're doing. It's always important to me to work with a cast and a crew that not only I respect t….

My brain has always been wired in such a way that I'd rather communicate to a smaller audience who really get turned on by what I do than meet a wide….

The writer's genetic inheritance and her or his experiences shape the writer into a unique individual, and it is this uniqueness that is the writer's….

In science fiction a fantastic event or development is considered rationally..

The zombie is in a lot of ways the perfect horror movie bad guy. It plays on so many fears all at once. The fear of predators, the fear of disease an….

Most of the complexity of the stories has developed as the stories came along (and may be a product of the principle that "nothing is what it seems")….

I don't really like movies that are all one or the other. It's really about the play between both of them. Now that I've said that, there's actually ….

I hope I'm still alive to see an expedition set off for Mars..

[T]he one indispensable ingredient of science fiction [is] a belief in a world being changed by man's intellect, a conviction that what was being wri….

God giving man life and taking it away is not nearly so bad as God taking away childhood and giving him life..

I don't really think in terms of competing with myself..

When people go to the theater, people say they want something different, but what they really want is something the same with slight permutations. To….

Science fiction is the branch of literature that deals with the effects of change on people in the real world as it can be projected into the past, t….

But if you, as an independent filmmaker or a "serious" filmmaker, think you put more love into your characters than the Russo Brothers do Captain Ame….

Thinking that everything is going to come together in a perfect way is not necessarily the way it's going to happen..

I really like people who can do both drama and comedy and not some like middle of the road do both drama and comedy. I'm not talking about some guy w….

One should be willing to throw away a dozen ideas to come up with a good one, just as one should throw away a dozen words to come up with the right o….

In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what read….

I love Groot so much I get teary eyed when I think of him sometimes. Essentially, all the Guardians start out the movie as bastards - except Groot. H….