The world may hold startling developments and shocking unknowns.

You want magic to feel real.

Real space movies have to involve zero gravity and a world without up or down.

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

I try to keep up, and the scientific perspective is always part of my creative approach.

I think my first love is film. There's something about the span of it and the completion of the experience. You sit down for two hours, in the dark, and you go somewhere else, and then you come back, having completed a journey.

The multiverse as a real physical construct within physics overlapping with a more mystical understanding of many possible worlds - the notion of there being a root down at the quantum level between intention and reality, between consciousness and existence - it's not a matter of trying to explain the mystery of magic away with a pat mechanism of a pseudoscience, it's just a matter of trying to ground it in a domain.