I want to have time. When you're doing a monthly book, you're like a man racing after a bus. You're breathless and red-faced. I want to build in quality control.

To me, science fiction is about the sense of mystery, the sense of awe. Not 'shock and awe', just 'awe.'

People in a cluster are bound to each other automatically, and can see each other automatically.

I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat.

I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi is the same as any other genre in terms of how you approach it - logically, character-based, with challenging ideas and forward thinking - but I worry that it might never happen in my lifetime.

I've always been kind of a mutt creatively. I started off in journalism, and I've actually done more police and procedural shows than I've ever done science fiction shows. I was on 'Murder She Wrote,' I was on 'Walker, Texas Ranger,' I was on 'Jake and the Fat Man.'

You can only have one voice on set, and that has to be the director.