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

The world may hold startling developments and shocking unknowns.

I grew up a really nerdy kid. I read science fiction and fantasy voraciously, for the first 16 years of my life. I read a lot of classic Cold War science fiction, which is much of the best science fiction, so I speak the language well, which is a commodity that's not easy to come by in Hollywood.

The science fiction I write comes from a pretty deep pool of literature, not just from the reflection of other science fiction films, and I think that gives me somewhat deeper roots.

I never stopped loving the deeper sciences, and I read as deeply into lay science as I 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.

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