The people who make policy decisions should damned well know what they are talking about before they make the decisions. There is nobody who is an expert on cloning who would be afraid after seeing Attack of the Clones.

The great secret behind classified projects is that most of them are so utterly boring and uninteresting that James Bond wouldn't even take a second look at them.

No, no, no - you don't argue with concepts. You have to claim Dogma, and therefore leave no room for rational thought.

We wanted to write the first prequels as a story that anyone could pick up.

My wife and I are involved in writing/publishing/promotion twenty-four/seven. It isn't a day job; it's life.

I think that somebody with the resources and innovation and the idea is going to come out of nowhere and come up with a successful space travel program.

We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that.