Directing offers you the hope that your vision will reach the screen, unmolested and intact. Therefore, it's tantalizing to all writers..

The more you learn about the real vastness of space and the real challenges of space travel, the more completely you appreciate the necessity of taki….

A lot of screenwriters have a drawer of unsold scripts that they cut their teeth on. I don't have one. Everything I've written, after my first spec, ….

Real space movies have to involve zero gravity and a world without up or down..

An X-wing fighter flies like an airplane. If you look at the physics, it's actually quite impossible..

Most of my life, I thought that I would end up a novelist. But then, in New York City, after college, I started a company with a college friend where….

I'd wanted to be a writer since I was knee-high. Once I knew that books were written by people and didn't just happen, it was obviously that I would ….

I mean that much more than wiser beings from beyond the stars bringing us enlightenment or death or salvation, we are likely to find ourselves the wi….

I never stopped loving the deeper sciences, and I read as deeply into lay science as I can..

I studied physics at Princeton when I was a college student, and my initial intention was to major in it but to also be a writer. What I discovered, ….

The reality of space travel I think is somewhere in the middle. We will get there, it will be hard, it will take a long time, and in the end, the mos….

The science fiction I write comes from a pretty deep pool of literature, not just from the reflection of other science fiction films, and I think tha….

I would say that working with Ridley Scott makes the process of directing much more terrifying..

Real vectoring in space, real orbital mechanics, is very counterintuitive, very strange, and very hard to render. It's expensive, and there's a learn….

Now with the international space station generating a bunch of video, and Space X and other companies pursuing private space flight, I think it's on ….

I think my first love is film. There's something about the span of it and the completion of the experience. You sit down for two hours, in the dark, ….

Everything I learn about the world, whether it's the simple arcana of how commercial products are manufactured and designed and how they reach our sh….

You want magic to feel real..

Space and spacecraft and zero gravity and so forth are very difficult to render..

You want the mystical understanding of the cosmos to feel compatible with a scientific understanding of the cosmos, like it extends our understanding….

When a new writer comes onto a project, he'll make wholesale changes just to mark the territory or for greater credit..