Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey the intended effect.

I think I got a complete picture of what the lives of scientists are like. My father is of the opinion that if scientists are allowed to follow their nose, eventually it results in something. Unfortunately that doesn't always happen. What I came out of it with, in a non-cynical way, was that the scientific process is as messy as anything else. There's nothing wrong with that. That's just the way it is.

I see music as an aid. It overcomes my internal editor, especially when the music evokes the character or the mood I'm trying to build.

But what if you discover that the price of purpose is to render invisible so many other things?

I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique, etc.

I don't believe that climate-change fiction will change the mind of a denier because most of the deniers I've met are basically in a cult situation. It's a faith issue. It's not a rational issue. There's no fact that's going to change their mind. They simply believe in the cult of climate-change denial and it somehow feeds into the rest of the mythos of their own life story.

Some questions will ruin you if you are denied the answer long enough.