You want magic to feel real.

I mean that much more than wiser beings from beyond the stars bringing us enlightenment or death or salvation, we are likely to find ourselves the wisest beings on the scene.

An X-wing fighter flies like an airplane. If you look at the physics, it's actually quite impossible.

Once you've written a good script, it will get made or not get made, according to variables you cannot control, like stars getting interested, and the superstitions in Hollywood rising or falling around what is over and done with versus what's in.

I never stopped loving the deeper sciences, and I read as deeply into lay science as I can.

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

Directing offers you the hope that your vision will reach the screen, unmolested and intact. Therefore, it's tantalizing to all writers.