Whenever you can bring your chops in as a reporter to unearth a cool story, that's always a good thing.

Science fiction shows are traditionally about the gimmick or the gadget and tend to be emotionally cool to the touch.

The whole point of having great characters is the opportunity to explore them more deeply with time, re-interpreting them for each new age.

Wouldn't it be much worse if life really were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us happen because we really deserve them?

Life isn't about the final moments, it's about the journey, it's about process. What makes Rocky work as a movie is seeing him working his way up from the streets to the arena and the fight of his life. You could just show that fight, and it would be great, but seeing that journey illuminates that fight and adds profound meaning to it.

When it comes down to it, the reason that science fiction endures is that it is, at its core, an optimistic genre. What it says at the end of the day is that there is a tomorrow, we do go on, we don't extinguish ourselves and leave the planet to the cockroaches.

Half-way through any big project, everyone forgets what they're doing.