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.

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

I studied physics at Princeton when I was a college student, and my initial intention was to major in it but to also be a writer. What I discovered, because it was a very high-powered physics program with its own fusion reactor, was that to keep up with my fellow students in that program I would need to dedicate myself to math and physics all the time and let writing go. And I couldn't let writing go, so I let physics go and became a science fan and a storyteller.

You want magic to feel real.

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.

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