I would say that working with Ridley Scott makes the process of directing much more terrifying.

You want magic to feel real.

Space and spacecraft and zero gravity and so forth are very difficult to render.

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

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.

I'd wanted to be a writer since I was knee-high. Once I knew that books were written by people and didn't just happen, it was obviously that I would write them, too.

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