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.

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.

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.

You don't control whether your movies get made. You can't. All you can control is whether your draft is great. So, you write your great draft, as best as you can, and then move on to the next thing.

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

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