You want magic to feel real.

For a successful writer, the secret is to have many irons in the fire. Write the next thing.

When a new writer comes onto a project, he'll make wholesale changes just to mark the territory or for greater credit.

The science fiction I write comes from a pretty deep pool of literature, not just from the reflection of other science fiction films, and I think that gives me somewhat deeper roots.

The world may hold startling developments and shocking unknowns.

It is true that, with TV, a writer gets a great deal more respect.

Everything I learn about the world, whether it's the simple arcana of how commercial products are manufactured and designed and how they reach our shelves and where the chips come from and who does the code, to more profound things like whether or not a black hole might be penetrable as a wormhole, whether or not universes might be accessible from here, whether space can be stretched and compressed to enable faster-than-light travel without violating physical law - all of those things have tremendous story potential.