I never think of things rationally or intellectually. I swear, every single decision I make is just instinct and my instincts tend to be accurate.

If it takes several billion years to develop the building blocks which you need, like RNA and DNA, and then those can build multicellular life and then multicellular life can be honed with natural selection to a point where it becomes sentient like us, then at some point that sentient being can begin to manipulate the matter around it to build better sentient life.

I never really think of something in terms of what not to do. It's always what's appealing or what's cool.

News is almost more interesting to me than other people's fiction, if that makes sense. But other people's fiction in terms of design is still incredibly interesting to me.

If you don't have something that glues the audience to the screen, you're in trouble.

I think that 'Elysium' the movie is unrealistic, with the space station and everything. I think 'Elysium' the metaphor is completely realistic: it's exactly where we're going.

I am a firm believer that the pull for human beings is towards the good, generally outweighing the bad.