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

A long time ago, I stopped trying to look at projects as genre exercises.

Confidence is preparation in action.

I think more and more scientists are becoming convinced that it's very likely that life forms of some kind exist all around the universe not so far from us.

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.

Sports always works for us more allegorically or metaphorically and that's what's fantastic about why we love them. You demonstrate the limits to which a human being can go and they keep pushing the boundaries of that.

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