Humor is unavoidable. It might not feel funny in the moment, but more often than not there's a light at the end of the tunnel.

I've just looked for ideas and great characters that I relate to and that I think I can offer something to the audience, and I no longer look at them as experiments or genre exercises at all.

You reach a point where you say you're not going to do juveniles any longer.

It was always hard to find stories that I felt were, in and of themselves, fresh enough and intriguing enough .

The sooner we become a multi-planet species, the safer the species is, and the stronger the guarantee that we're going to continue to evolve.

There's a very real argument that the minute we are capable of going to a planet, whether it's Mars or another one, and inhabiting it, that we really should.

I just don't think of myself as an actor much at all, so I don't lust after any particular roles.