Sometimes big budget means explosions! CGI! CGI, the possibilities are so limitless that it begins to be impractical. I'm more interested in the kinds of movies where the science fiction world has a set series of rules and you operate in it because of, maybe, constraints in the budget.

I didn't understand how you could be an actor if you didn't also study philosophy and study political science, astronomy. And also just go out and live life and have experiences.

Once you play with these scenes and you're outlining it, again and again, and telling each other the narrative, and telling it to people you know, trying to make sure that the mathematics of the story work, you feel that those are in place, and the actual writing and final draft doesn't take as long.

I wasn't actually very naturally good at economics. My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics.

Nothing seemed as scary as waking up at 40 and realizing that I had not lived a very courageous life.

I think there is a general unrest or curiosity about what a human future is going to be like, and whether the way we're living is even sustainable.

Life and death and birth is this fantastic mystery that we cannot fully grasp.