We're all stories, in the end.
If anyone said to me 'invent a new monster so we can sell more toys', I'd kick them out of my office.
Madness is just what a genius looks like to a tiny mind.
See the bowtie? I wear it and I don't care. That's why it's cool.
The way you get your script to the right people is that you put it in an envelope. It's easy. The difficult bit is writing something that is so good people will take a punt on a brand new writer.
Time travel is always more magical somehow when you go into the past. Traveling into the future is something you do, every day. You're just not going to get very far. So, I rather like the past travel.