Directing offers you the hope that your vision will reach the screen, unmolested and intact. Therefore, it's tantalizing to all writers.
Jon SpaihtsWhen a new writer comes onto a project, he'll make wholesale changes just to mark the territory or for greater credit.
Jon SpaihtsI 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.
Jon SpaihtsI would say that working with Ridley Scott makes the process of directing much more terrifying.
Jon SpaihtsThe 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.
Jon Spaihts