All of us have that feeling of some deficiency from our childhood. I think that's a universal thing.

You never want to make a "message movie," but you always want to be talking about something that you care about.

The fanboy community can smell in an instant, like smelling fear, when something was tailor-made in order to reach them as a demographic.

I'm a sci-fi fan, and I guess you have to let go of some of that at some point, and realize that as long as you're focused on telling a story that you care about, at the end of the day, that's what really matters, even to hard-core sci-fi fans.

My favorite sci-fi always uses its hook to amplify some bigger theme or idea - some emotional thrust.

You go from these high hopes when you're writing to just a desperate want of not making a complete fool of yourself by the end of it.

Hopefully with each thing that you do you're learning something, you're growing, and you're pushing yourself a little harder in some way or another. So I think you'd be in real trouble if each new thing that you create didn't feel like 'Oh, wow. I feel like I'm doing something a little different this time.