But, it has something to do with having belief in a human future and what that human future is. What is the future of humanity? How does this whole experiment not self-destruct with the environment and everything else going on?

Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit of a pop philosopher without being didactic.

A whole film is just about arriving at a moment where you hopefully transfer some feeling to the audience.

That's the funny thing about cinema, it is an intellectual medium, but it's also sort of anti-intellectual.

I learned from my parents the idea that, if you are devoted enough and you want to study something enough, you can really teach yourself anything.

One of my favorite stories growing up was A Wrinkle in Time. I loved that book. I still remember the image, so strongly, of all the kids coming out of their house at the same time, they're all bouncing a ball at the same time, and they all go back in at the same time. A Wrinkle in Time moved me deeply.

I believe in what science fiction can do, which is it can set up simple rules that it has to follow to try to illuminate something about the present that is somewhat invisible to us.