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

Now with the international space station generating a bunch of video, and Space X and other companies pursuing private space flight, I think it's on all of our radars much more than it has been since the moonshots. The science of filmmaking is making these visions possible now.

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

I will never probably have the mathematical foundation to truly understand what string theorists are talking about, but it feels good, just for its own sake, to get as close to an understanding as you can.

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.

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

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